Quotes 301 till 320 of 393.
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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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The public, with its mob yearning to be instructed, edified and pulled by the nose, demands certainties; it must be told definitely and a bit raucously that this is true and that is false. But there are no certainties.
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The real index of civilization is when people are kinder than they need to be.
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The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.
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The trouble with fulfilling your ambitions is you think you will be transformed into some sort of archangel and you're not. You still have to wash your socks.
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The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.
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The truth is that the average schoolmaster, on all the lower levels, is and always must be essentially and next door to an idiot, for how can one imagine an intelligent man engaging in so puerile an avocation?
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe.
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The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the asymmetry of the universe or of its indirect consequences. The universe is asymmetric.
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The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.
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The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others.
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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed [and Hence Clamorous To Be Led To Safety] by an endless series of hobgoblins.
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The whole theme of Interview with the Vampire was Louis's quest for meaning in a godless world. He searched to find the oldest existing immortal simply to ask, What is the meaning of what we are?
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The world is full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.
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There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.
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There are not words enough in all Shakespeare to express the merest fraction of a man's experience in an hour.
Source: The Pocket R.L.S. -
There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.
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There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses.
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