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Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.




The best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest intellect, the warmest human sympathy and the highest imaginative powers.




Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.




Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.




Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness - the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.




Every man has one thing he can do better than anyone else--and usually it's reading his own handwriting.




Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.




One only needs two tools in life: WD-40 to make things go, and duct tape to make them stop.




One only needs two tools in life WD-40 to make things go, and duct tape to make them stop.




...a science is said to be useful if its development tends to accentuate the existing inequalities in the destribution of wealth, or more directly promotes the destruction of human life.




The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.




The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.




The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.




Nowadays a citizen can hardly distinguish between a tax and a fine, except that the fine is generally much lighter.




The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.




What a glorious garden of wonders the lights of Broadway would be to anyone lucky enough to be unable to read.




One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.




The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it it his head that splits.




Nietzche started a nonsensical idea that men had once sought as good what we now call evil; if it were so, we could not talk of surpassing or even falling short of them.




The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good and thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burdens of the past.




...they no longer felt like newlyweds, and even less like belated lovers. It was as if they had lept over the arduous calvary of conjugal life and gone straight to the heart of love. They were together in silence like an old married couple wary of life, beyond the pitfalls of passion, beyond the brutal mockery of hope and the phantoms of disillusion: beyond love. For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death.




Life is not what one lived, but rather what one remembers, and how it is remembered to tell the tale.




When I was young, I used to think that wealth and power would bring me happiness... I was right.




Some things arrive on their own mysterious hour, on their own terms and not yours, to be seized or relinquished forever.




Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.




As we reach midlife . we are not prepared for the idea that time can run out on us, or for the startling truth that if we don't hurry to pursue our own definition of a meaningful existence, life can become a repetition of trivial maintenance duties.
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