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You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.
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The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.
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The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.
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A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.
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Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.
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Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.
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Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.
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In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.
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Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.
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Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.
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A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.
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