The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.
From Aldous Huxley
What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.
What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure.
The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.
From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.
It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.
To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.
Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.
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