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146Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held. Vedavyas
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Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held. -
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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors. -
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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work. -
135From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn. Vedavyas
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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. -
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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad. -
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We are all geniuses up to the age of ten. -
145Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too. Vedavyas
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Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too. -
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know. -
457The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own. Vedavyas
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135Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure. Vedavyas
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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely... -
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. -
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Several excuses are always less convincing than one. -
138That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent. Vedavyas
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That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent. -
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There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness. -
152There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. Vedavyas
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There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. -
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160Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science. Vedavyas
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131It 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. Vedavyas
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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,... -
144Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt. Vedavyas
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Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt. -
123There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done. Vedavyas
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There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.