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The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole. - Author object (28)

What is the seal of liberation? Not to be ashamed in front of oneself. - Author object (28)

Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love. - Author object (28)

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy. - Author object (28)

A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation. - Author object (28)

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication. - Author object (28)

Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them. - Author object (28)

As long as you still experience the stars as something "above you", you lack the eye of knowledge. - Author object (28)

There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it. - Author object (559)

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. - Author object (559)

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. - Author object (559)

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3-parts dead. - Author object (559)

An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup. - Author object (559)

As a philosopher, if I were speaking to a purely philosophic audience I should say that I ought to describe myself as an Agnostic, because I do not think that there is a conclusive argument by which one can prove that there is not a God. On the other hand, if I am to convey the right impression to the ordinary man in the street I think that I ought to say that I am an Atheist, because, when I say that I cannot prove that there is not a God, I ought to add equally that I cannot prove that there are not the Homeric gods. - Author object (559)

It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else that prevents us from living freely and nobly. - Author object (559)

So far as I can remember there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence. - Author object (559)

Beware the man of a single book. - Author object (559)

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important. - Author object (559)

Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own. - Author object (559)

Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people's. - Author object (559)