The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
Man is not made to understand life, but to live it.
Each religion, so dear to those whose life it sanctifies, and fulfilling so necessary a function in the society that has adopted it, necessarily contradicts every other religion, and probably contradicts itself.
Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.
Depression is rage spread thin.
The highest form of vanity is love of fame.
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
Each religion necessarily contradicts every other religion, and probably contradicts itself. Religions, like languages, are necessary rivals. What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak.
For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.
Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.
History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten. ...What is interesting is brought forward as if it had been central and efficacious in the march of events, and harmonies are turned into causes. Kings and generals are endowed with motives appropriate to what the historian values in their actions; plans are imputed to them prophetic of their actual achievements, while the thoughts that really preoccupied them remain buried in absolute oblivion.
The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.
The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it.
Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.
Happiness is impossible, and even inconceivable, to a mind without scope and without pause, a mind driven by craving, pleasure, or fear. To be happy, you must be reasonable, or you must be tamed. You must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world and what things in it can really serve you. To be happy, you must be wise.
Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
The mediocrity of everything in the great world of today is simply appalling. We live in intellectual slums.
There is no greater stupidity or meanness than to take uniformity for an ideal.
It is true that I am carrying out various methods of treatment recommended by doctors and dentists in the hope of dying in the remote future in perfect health.
Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.
Most men's conscience, habits, and opinions are borrowed from convention and gather continually comforting assurances from the same social consensus that originally suggested them.
There is wisdom in turning as often as possible from the familiar to the unfamiliar: it keeps the mind nimble, it kills prejudice, and it fosters humor.
The mass of mankind is divided into two classes, the Sancho Panza's who have a sense for reality, but no ideals, and the Don Quixote's with a sense for ideals, but mad.
Man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body. He may like to go alone for a walk, but he hates to stand alone in his opinions.
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