There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception. Votes: 18
The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved. Votes: 13
Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers. Votes: 0
There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. Votes: 0
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. Votes: 0
There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception." Votes: 0
Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced. Votes: 0
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. Votes: 0
You all remember, I suppose, that beautiful and inspired saying of Our Ford's: History is bunk. Votes: 0
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead. Votes: 0
People will insist on treating the mons Veneris as though it were Mount Everest. Too silly! Votes: 0
Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation. Votes: 0
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude. Votes: 0
Ending is better than mending. Votes: 0
Family, monogamy, romance. Everywhere exclusiveness, a narrow channelling of impulse and energy. Votes: 0
Pageantry is a visionary art which has been used, from time immemorial, as a political instrument. Votes: 0
People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into episcopal behinds. Votes: 0
Dream in a pragmatic way. Votes: 0
On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean. Votes: 0
There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol. Votes: 0
The more stitches, the less riches. Votes: 0
Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance. Votes: 0
Civilization is sterilization. Votes: 0
Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt. Votes: 0
Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left. Votes: 0
which is better - to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one? Votes: 0
I am I, and I wish I weren't. Votes: 0
Whatâs the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when anthrax bombs are popping all around you? Votes: 0
...most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution. Votes: 0
If you want to write, keep cats. Votes: 0
...two thirds of all sorrow is homemade and, so far as the universe is concerned, unnecessary. Votes: 0
The vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches. Votes: 0
Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery. Votes: 0
Let us be kinder to one another. Votes: 0
Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You canât consume much if you sit still and read books. Votes: 0
Happiness is never grand. Votes: 0
Can you say something about nothing? Votes: 0
People travel for the same reason as they collect works of art: because the best people do it. Votes: 0
Hell is the incapacity to be other than the creature one finds oneself ordinarily behaving as. Votes: 0
The more you know, the more you see Votes: 0
Reality, no matter how utopian, seems to be something people need to frequently take a holiday from. Votes: 0
An ideal is merely the projection, on an enormously enlarged scale, of some aspect of personality. Votes: 0
...it is not what one has experienced but what one does with what one has experienced that matters. Votes: 0
War is often described as a law of nature-this is not true: Among the lower animals, war is unknown. Votes: 0
In a few years, no doubt, marriage licences will be sold like dog licences, good for 12 months. Votes: 0
Every significant artist is a metaphysician, a propounder of beauty-truths and form-theories. Votes: 0
Being cared for when one is dead is less satisfactory than being cared for when one is alive. Votes: 0
It is natural to believe in God when you're alone-- quite alone, in the night, thinking about death. Votes: 0
Everyone belongs to everyone else. Votes: 0
In a word, they failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions. Votes: 0
Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something. Votes: 0
Pain was a fascinating horror Votes: 0
The ductless glands secrete among other things our moods, our aspirations, our philosophy of life. Votes: 0
Cleanliness is next to fordliness. Votes: 0
In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is very high; in reality, very low. Votes: 0
A gramme is better than a damn, Votes: 0
Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice. Votes: 0
Every idol, however exalted, turns out, in the long run, to be a Moloch, hungry for human sacrifice. Votes: 0
The lunatic fringe is more like a Spanish shawl, where the fringe makes up the entire garment. Votes: 0
Somewhere in the rain, there will always be an abandoned dog that prevents you from being happy. Votes: 0
God: a gaseous vertebrate. Votes: 0
Faith may be relied upon to produce sustained action and, more rarely, sustained contemplation. Votes: 0
Dedicated to all those who say: "I don't have time for analytics" or "I don't understand analytics". Votes: 0
Most kings and priests have been despotic, and all religions have been riddled with superstition. Votes: 0
In life, man proposes, God disposes. Votes: 0