All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.
Try to understand men. If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and almost always leads to love.
It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.
And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you’ve got two new people.
I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one. . . . Humans are caught—in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their kindness and generosity too—in a net of good and evil. . . . There is no other story. A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean questions: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well—or ill?
No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
Anything that just costs money is cheap.
As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and movement stopped for much, much more than a moment.
There’s more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty.
A man so painfully in love is capable of self-torture beyond belief.
Don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens – The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.
I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.
And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual. This is what I am and what I am about.
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