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"The mind is so tricky. It will say, "No one cares. Is it true? Well, someone does. Let's see: So-and-so doesn't care. Well, maybe they do. Well, there is someone who doesn't care." It just shifts and shifts and shifts, so it can keep all of its concepts intact."
"Art does not tolerate reason."
"Beauty, no doubt, does not make revolutions. But a day will come when revolutions will have need of beauty."
"One does not make wars less likely by formulationg rules of warfare... war cannot be humanized. It can only be eliminated."
"No one does anything right in life, until they realize that they are making a mistake"
"What is significant in one's own existence one is hardly aware, and it certainly should not bother the other fellow. What does a fish know about the water in which he swims all his life?"
"I'm generally in favor of economic globalization. Having said that, it doesnt always work and does not immediately work in the interest of all. There are sufferers."
"What one does easily, one does well."
"I think an artist is anybody who does something well, like if you cook well."
"My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it."
"Business or toil is merely utilitarian. It is necessary but does not enrich or ennoble a human life."
"No one who desires to become good will become good unless he does good things."
"Distance does not break off the friendship absolutely, but only the activity of it."
"One swallow does not make a spring, nor does one fine day."
"Since we think we understand when we know the explanation, and there are four types of explanation (one, what it is to be a thing; one, that if certain things hold it is necessary that this does; another, what initiated the change; and fourth, the aim), all these are proved through the middle term."
"Our account does not rob the mathematicians of their science... In point of fact they do not need the infinite and do not use it."
"To be always seeking after the useful does not become free and exalted souls."
"Might I trouble you to open the window, for chloroform vapour does not help the palate."
"Just as the body goes into shock after a physical trauma, so does the human psyche go into shock after the impact of a major loss."
"They say a woman always remembers her first lover with affection; but perhaps she does not always remember him."
