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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love – almost as violent and much more mischievous.
There isn’t any formula or method. You learn to love by loving – by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.
You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It’s one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.
It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one’s life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than ‘try to be a little kinder.’
Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.
There’s only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.
A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.