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All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.


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All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
         



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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.



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Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.



The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.

The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.



If we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery, and injustice, we are indeed blind. And if, knowing this, we do not desire deliverance, what can we say of a man...?

If we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery, and injustice, we are indeed blind. And if, knowing this, we do not desire deliverance, what can we say of a man...?



Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.

Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.



We must keep our thought secret, and judge everything by it, while talking like the people.

We must keep our thought secret, and judge everything by it, while talking like the people.



Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity.

Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity.



To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher.



Δύο υπερβολές : ν' αποκλείουμε το Λόγο, και να μη δεχόμαστε παρά μόνο το Λόγο.

Δύο υπερβολές : ν' αποκλείουμε το Λόγο, και να μη δεχόμαστε παρά μόνο το Λόγο.



There are three sources of belief: reason, custom, inspiration.

There are three sources of belief: reason, custom, inspiration.





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I enjoy the character interplay. Sometimes the audience is not laughing, but smiling, and that is almost just as good because it keeps them ready to laugh.

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the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat

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