What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?
The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.
All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently the first condition of progress is the removal of censorships. There is the whole case against censorships in a nutshell.
The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be good to her.
My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.
Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
You don’t stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.
Science is always wrong, it never solves a problem without creating ten more.
Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one’s business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.
How can you dare teach a man to read until you’ve taught him everything else first?
The worst sin… is… to be indifferent.
A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most. On Other Peoples Expectations: The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me.
Here there is no hope, and consequently no duty, no work, nothing to be gained by praying, nothing to be lost by doing what you like. Hell, in short, is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.
A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself.
The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.
It’s so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.
The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.
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