FridayDec 27, 2024
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There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.
Every artist writes his own autobiography.
The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.
The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite.
The byproduct is sometimes more valuable than the product.
All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.
There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself.
Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.
The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities.... A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship.
One can know nothing of giving aught that is worthy to give unless one also knows how to take.
To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.
Had there been a lunatic asylum in the suburbs of Jerusalem, Jesus Christ would infallibly have been shut up in it at the outset of his public career. That interview with Satan on a pinnacle of the Temple would alone have damned him, and everything that happened after could but have confirmed the diagnosis.
The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.
The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought.
It is here [in mathematics] that the artist has the fullest scope of his imagination.
If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth.
To make a mountain of a mole-hill.
What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command.
A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.
In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way.
The sun and the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago ... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.
The omnipresent process of sex, as it is woven into the whole texture of our man's or woman's body, is the pattern of all the process of our life.
What we call 'progress' is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a wilderness.
A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray.
Thinking in its lower grades is comparable to paper money. and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.
Even the most scientific investigator in science, the most thoroughgoing Positivist, cannot dispense with fiction; he must at least make use of categories, and they are already fictions, analogical fictions, or labels, which give us the same pleasure as children receive when they are told the 'name' of a thing.
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