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The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

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There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.

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The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

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Deep knowledge is not knowledge of the thing itself, but knowledge of a thing like the thing. Then, you gain not one knowledge, but two knowledges. Of the thing. And of the original thing with is like the thing. Which is the barbarism of the privileged class.

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Your heart and your mouth wil be in two separate parts of your body if you again forget in whose presence you stand.

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All progress is due to the unreasonable person.

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What is self-control? It is nothing but a highly developed vital sense, dominating and regulating the mere appetites. To overlook the very existence of this supreme sense; to miss the obvious inference that it is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive.

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That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them. But it's horribly lonely not to hear someone else talk sometimes.

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A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

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Affection between adults - if they are really adult in mind and not merely grown up children - and creatures so relatively selfish and cruel as children necessarily are without knowing it or meaning it, cannot be called natural.

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Hell is not all paved with bad intentions.

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All industries are brought under the control of such people [film producers] by Capitalism. If the capitalists let themselves be seduced from their pursuit of profits to the enchantments of art, they would be bankrupt before they knew where they were. You cannot combine the pursuit of money with the pursuit of art.

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Most of the money given by rich people in "charity" is made up of conscience money, "ransom," political bribery, and bids for titles.... One buys moral credit by signing a cheque, which is easier than turning a prayer wheel.

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Science is always simple and always profound. It is only the half-truths that are dangerous.

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We are all victims of the violence that animals suffer... their liberation is also our liberation.

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The apparent multiplication of gods is bewildering at the first glance, but you soon discover that they are the same GOD. There is always one uttermost God who defies personification. This makes Hinduism the most tolerant religion in the world, because its one transcendent God includes all possible gods. In fact Hinduism is so elastic and so subtle that the most profound Methodist, and crudest idolater, are equally at home with it.

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The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.

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Idiots are always in favour of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favour of equality.

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Dancing is a very crude attempt to get into the rhythm of life.

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Youth is just wasted on young people.

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