I love and reverence the Word, the bearer of the spirit, the tool and gleaming ploughshare of progress.

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Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them

Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them

Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you.

Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you.

Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness.

Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness.

Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle...

Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle...

For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without...

For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without...

Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family...

Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family...

Psycho-analyses, how disgusting.

Psycho-analyses, how disgusting.

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.

He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.

The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an...

The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an...

All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.

All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well...

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well...

I don't think anyone is thinking long-term now.

I don't think anyone is thinking long-term now.

What we call mourning for our dead is perhaps not so much grief at not...

What we call mourning for our dead is perhaps not so much grief at not...

I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest...

I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest...

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

Only he who desires is amiable and not he who is satiated.

Only he who desires is amiable and not he who is satiated.

Everything is politics.

Everything is politics.

Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.

Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.