When our individual interests and prospects do not seem worth living for, we are in desperate need for something apart from us to live for. All forms of dedication, devotion, loyalty and self-surrender are in essence a desperate clinging to something which might give worth and meaning to our futile, spoiled lives.
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The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.
Never assume the obvious is true.
Never assume the obvious is true.
Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
Those families, you know, are our upper crust, not upper ten
thousand.
Those families, you know, are our upper crust, not upper ten
thousand.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
If there is no struggle there is no progress.
If there is no struggle there is no progress.
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It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil. It behooves the well-intentioned, therefore, vigorously to watch the tendency of even their most highly prized institutions, since that which was established in the interests of the right, may so easily become the agent of the wrong.
Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.
Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.
