It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.
From Aldous Huxley
Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.
We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.
An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.
People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.
My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous.
You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
Experience teaches only the teachable.
A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.
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