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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects… totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.
To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes – ah, they have all the necessary leisure.
Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one’s never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.
Science has explained nothing the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.