"Nothing is more dreadful than a cold, unimpassioned indulgence. And love infallibly becomes cold and unimpassioned when it is too lightly made."
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"To associate with other like-minded people in small, purposeful groups is for the great majority of men and women a source of profound psychological satisfaction. Exclusiveness will add to the pleasure of being several, but at one; and secrecy will intensify it almost to ecstasy."
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"An ideal is merely the projection, on an enormously enlarged scale, of some aspect of personality."
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"Proportion ... You can't help thinking about it in these London streets, where it doesn't exist ... It's like listening to a symphony of cats to walk along them. Senseless discords and a horrible disorder all the way ... We need no barbarians from outside; they're on the premises, all the time."
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"Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity"
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"In actual life a downward movement may sometimes be made the beginning of an ascent."
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"What wonder, then, if human beings in their search for the divine have generally preferred to look within!"
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"It is possible to argue that the really influential book is not that which converts ten millions of casual readers, but rather that which converts the very few who, at any given moment, succeed in seizing power. Marx and Sorel have been influential in the modern world, not so much because they were best-sellers (Sorel in particular was not at all a widely read author), but because among their few readers were two men, called respectively Lenin and Mussolini."
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"Compared with that of Taoists and Far Eastern Buddhists, the Christian attitude toward Nature has been curiously insensitive and often downright domineering and violent. Taking their cue from an unfortunate remark in Genesis, Catholic moralists have regarded animals as mere things which men do right to regard for their own ends. . . ."
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"Half at least of all morality is negative and consists in keeping out of mischief. The lords prayer is less than 50 words long, and 6 of those words are devoted to asking god not to lead us into temptation."
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"Successfully (whatever that may mean) or unsuccessfully, we all overact the part of our favorite character in fiction."
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"Pain was a fascinating horror"
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"Everyone belongs to everyone else."
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"No man, however civilized, can listen for very long to African drumming, or Indian chanting, or Welsh hymn singing, and retain intact his critical and self-conscious personality."
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"The self is coming from a state of pure awareness from the state of being. All the rest that comes about in a outward manifesation of the physical world, including fluctuations which end up as thoughts and actions"
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"I believe one would write better if the climate were bad. If there were a lot of wind and storms for example."
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"The thing that impresses me most about this country is its hopefulness. It is this which distinguishes it from Europe, where there is hopeless depression and fear."
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"Christianity accepted as given a metaphysical system derived from several already existing and mutually incompatible systems."
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"It’s embarrassing to tell you this, but it seems to come down mostly to just learning to be kinder."
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"I had to depend on Braille for my reading and guide for my walking...I am now wearing no glasses, reading and all without strain...by taking lessons in seeing...optometrists hate the method."
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