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The real death of America will come when everyone is alike.
The real death of America will come when everyone is alike.
If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him.
If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him.
The ideal of self-advancement which the civilizing west offers to backward populations brings with it the plague of individual frustration. read more
The ideal of self-advancement which the civilizing west offers to backward populations brings with it the plague of individual frustration. All the advantages brought by the West are ineffectual substitutes for the sheltering and soothing anonymity of communal existence.
It is the test of a good religion whether you can make a joke about it.
It is the test of a good religion whether you can make a joke about it.
Proselytizing is more a passionate search for something not yet found than a desire to bestow upon the world something read more
Proselytizing is more a passionate search for something not yet found than a desire to bestow upon the world something we already have. It is a search for a final and irrefutable demonstration that our absolute truth is indeed the one and only truth. The proselytizing fanatic strengthens his own faith by converting others.
I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to read more
I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.
Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.
...everything is too important ever to be entrusted to professional experts, because every organization of such professionals and every established read more
...everything is too important ever to be entrusted to professional experts, because every organization of such professionals and every established social organization becomes a vested-interest institution more concerned with its efforts to maintain itself or advance its own interests than to achieve the purpose that society expects it to achieve.
We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
