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Guess again. If it bleeds, you can kill it. A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance. Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves. At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear. It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us. You can love completely without complete understanding. There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result. Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed. It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried. My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked. A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child. MacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts. I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me. If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce. Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. To govern is to correct. If you set an example by being correct, who would dare remain incorrect? Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire. If a man remembers what is right at the sign of profit, is ready to lay down his life in the face of danger, and does not forget sentiments he has repeated all his life when he has been in straitened circumstances for a long time, he may be said to be a complete man. It is only the benevolent man who is capable of liking or disliking other men. Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth. In his errors a man is true to type. Observe the errors and you will know the man. While the gentleman cherishes benign rule, the small man cherishes his native land. While the gentleman cherishes a respect for the law, the small man cherishes generous treatment. O, throw away the worser part of it, And live the purer with the other half. Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition. We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all. Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. There is more to life than increasing its speed. There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other. The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but hold hands. I celebrate myself, and sing myself. What is it the Bible teaches us? - rapine, cruelty, and murder. What is it the Testament teaches us? - to believe that the Almighty committed debauchery with a woman engaged to be married, and the belief of this debauchery is called faith. Love is an irresistable desire to be irresistably desired. I am the only guinea pig I have. True friendship is never serene. The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing. I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific. The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. Sweet is revenge - especially to women. Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the bible is filled, it would seem more consistent that we called it the word of a demon than the Word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind. My writing is like a ten gallon spring. It can issue from the ground anywhere at all. On smooth ground it rushes swiftly on and covers a thouasand li in a single day without difficulty. When it twists and turns among mountains and rocks, it fits its form to things it meets: unknowable. What can be known is, it always goes where it must go, always stops where it cannot help stopping -- nothing else. More than that, even I cannot know. But, my dearest Agathon, it is truth which you cannot contradict; you can without any difficulty contradict Socrates. There is no royal road to geometry. A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension. Nothing endures but personal qualities. I bet the human brain is a kludge. Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them. We have enough religion to hate each other, but not enough to love each other. Learning builds daily accumulation, but the prictice of Tao builds daily simplification. Simplify and simplify, until all contamination from relative, contridictory thinking is eliminated. Then one does nothing, yet nothing is left undone. One who wins the world does so by not meddling with it. One who meddles with the world loses it. Attention, attention, there are monkey-boys in the complex. Home is where you wear your hat. Nietsche is Pietsche. |
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