• Society

  Bankruptcy is a sacred state, a condition beyond conditions, as theologians might say, and attempts to investigate it are necessarily obscene, like spiritualism. One knows only that he has passed into it and lives beyond us, in a condition not ours.

  3.4 · 55 votes · 43 reads

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• Society

  Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being ''somebody,'' to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his over-animation. One can either see or be seen.

  3.0 · 49 votes · 73 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.

  3.4 · 25 votes · 53 reads

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• Society

  Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

  3.6 · 38 votes · 200 reads

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• Various

  Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.

  4.8 · 41 votes · 191 reads

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• Various

  Facts are generally overesteemed. For most practical purposes, a thing is what men think it is. When they judged the earth flat, it was flat. As long as men thought slavery tolerable, tolerable it was. We live down here among shadows, shadows among shadow

  3.8 · 26 votes · 164 reads

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• Nature

  For male and female alike, the bodies of the other sex are messages signaling what we must do - they are glowing signifiers of our own necessities.

  4.1 · 49 votes · 21 reads

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• Government and Politics

  Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.

  5.0 · 15 votes · 108 reads

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• Government and Politics

  I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.

  4.3 · 22 votes · 9 reads

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• Various

  I think ''taste'' is a social concept and not an artistic one. I'm willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else's living room, but our reading life is too short for a Writerto be in any way polite. Since his words enter into another's brain in s

  3.6 · 30 votes · 20 reads

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• Time

  If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

  4.1 · 23 votes · 198 reads

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• Society

  It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patching to repair great rents in the quotidian.

  3.1 · 45 votes · 94 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  Looking foolish does the spirit good. The need not to look foolish is one of youth's many burdens; as we get older we are exempted from more and more, and float upward in our heedlessness, singing Gratia Dei sum quod sum.

  3.0 · 40 votes · 77 reads

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• Time

  Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

  3.1 · 36 votes · 80 reads

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• Virtues

  Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solitude is the enemy of well-being.

  4.8 · 31 votes · 74 reads

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• Society

  Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.

  3.6 · 49 votes · 90 reads

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• Art and Culture

  School is where you go between when your parents can't take you, and industry can't take you.

  4.2 · 40 votes · 92 reads

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• Nature

  Sex is like money; only too much is enough.

  3.0 · 54 votes · 200 reads

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• Society

  That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

  3.2 · 15 votes · 176 reads

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• Society

  The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified.

  3.2 · 13 votes · 159 reads

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• Government and Politics

  To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client; still, one must make the best of the case, for the purposes of Providence.

  3.0 · 20 votes · 87 reads

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• Government and Politics

  To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness: true enough, from the standpoint of a stateless eunuch, but merely a provocative epigram for those who must make their arrangements in the world as given.

  3.7 · 23 votes · 188 reads

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• Nature

  What more fiendish proof of cosmic irresponsibility than a Nature which, having invented sex as a way to mix genes, then permits to arise, amid all its perfumed and hypnotic inducements to mate, a tireless tribe of spirochetes and viruses that torture and

  3.0 · 11 votes · 169 reads

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• Art and Culture

  Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.

  4.8 · 34 votes · 148 reads

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