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Nine out of ten of what we call new ideas are simply old mistakes.

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The Catholic Church is the only thing that saves man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age.

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The decay of society is praised by artists as the decay of a corpse is praised by worms.

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The truth is that there are no things for which men will make such herculean efforts as the things of which they know they are unworthy.

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There is not really any courage at all in attacking hoary or antiquated things, any more than in offering to fight one's grandmother. The really courageous man is he who defies tyrannies young as the morning and superstitions fresh as the first flowers. The only true free-thinker is he whose intellect is as much free from the future as from the past.

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The last few decades have been marked by a special cultivation of the romance of the future. We seem to have made up our minds to misunderstand what has happened; and we turn, with a sort of relief, to stating what will happen-which is apparently much easier...The modern mind is forced towards the future by a certain sense of fatigue, not unmixed with terror, with which it regards the past.

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A sober man may become a drunkard through being a coward. A brave man may become a coward through being a drunkard.

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Teach to the young, men's enduring truths, and let the learned amuse themselves with their passing errors.

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Most modern freedom is at root fear. It is not so much that we are too bold to endure rules; it is rather that we are too timid to endure responsibilities.

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Men rush towards complexity, but they yearn towards simplicity. They try to be kings; but they dream of being shepherds.

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When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven't got any.

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If a man does not talk to himself, it is because he is not worth talking to.

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children are simply human beings who are allowed to do what everyone else really desires to do, as for instance, to fly kites, or when seriously wronged to emit prolonged screams for several minutes.

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When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it.

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The center of every man's existence is a dream.

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The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.

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Even the moon is only poetical because there is a man in the moon.

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It is one thing to describe an interview with a gorgon or a griffin, a creature who does not exist. It is another thing to discover that the rhinoceros does exist and then take pleasure in the fact that he looks as if he didn't.

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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.

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Every one on this earth should believe, amid whatever madness or moral failure, that his life and temperament have some object on the earth. Every one on the earth should believe that he has something to give to the world which cannot otherwise be given.

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