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The nature of oratory is such that there has alwa

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The nature of oratory is such that there has always been a tendency among politicians and clergymen to oversimplify complex matters. From a pulpit or a platform even the most conscientious of speakers finds it very difficult to tell the whole truth.

Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescenc

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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.

Technological progress has merely provided us wit

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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs

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Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lun

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A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.

Every civilization is, among other things, an arra

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Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work.

What we feel and think and are is to a great exte

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What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.

Several excuses are always less convincing than o

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Several excuses are always less convincing than one.

What we feel and think and are is to a great exten

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What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.

What we feel and think and are is to a great exte

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What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.

Maybe this world is another planet's hell.

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Maybe this world is another planet's hell.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

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Every man's memory is his private literature.

The course of every intellectual, if he pursues h

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The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred.

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs

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Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs

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Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.

My father considered a walk among the mountains a

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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay

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If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay, the arts would perish with their starving practitioners - let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.

Every civilization is, among other things, an arr

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Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work.

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs

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Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.

The vast majority of human beings are not interes

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The vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches.

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