Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
From Aldous Huxley
Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.
I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.
Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
Every man's memory is his private literature.
Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.
A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
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