War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.

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Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the...

Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the...

Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake,...

Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake,...

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.

Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.

A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.

A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.

Politeness is organized indifference.

Politeness is organized indifference.

Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.

Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very...

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very...

Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern...

Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern...

To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same...

To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same...

God made everything out of the void, but the void shows through

God made everything out of the void, but the void shows through

Poe is the only impeccable writer. He was never mistaken.

Poe is the only impeccable writer. He was never mistaken.

The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by...

The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by...

Serious-minded people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.

Serious-minded people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.

Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake,...

Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake,...

To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same...

To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same...

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.

In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.

The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things...

The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things...

That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being...

That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being...