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Useful Half-Truths
To a happy soul, pleasures are no longer necessary; to a pleasure-seeking soul, happiness is not yet possible.
The sole cause of man’s unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.
Pascal
To love is to suffer, to be loved is to cause suffering.
Countess Diane
One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
Mme de Staël
Work never hurt anyone. It’s lack of it that destroys people.
Katharine Hepburn
Work is a product of misery, and discontent. I only work because I’m unhappy. If I was happy I should never work.
Malcolm Muggeridge
It is better to do nothing than to do harm. Half the useful work in the world consists of combatting the harmful work.
Bertrand Russell
LABOUR: one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
Ambrose Bierce
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.
Oscar Wilde
Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong and that ninety-nine per cent of them are wrong.
H. L. Mencken
People react to fear, not love; they don’t teach that in Sunday School, but it’s true.
Richard Nixon
Every nation has the government it deserves.
Joseph de Maistre
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
H. L. Mencken
We are governed by bloody fools wirepulled by damned thieves.
George Bernard Shaw
Law and order is one of the steps taken to maintain injustice.
Edward Bond
You get only the amount of justice you can afford, no more, no less.
Wilfrid Sheed
The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.
William Hazlitt
Hugh Kingsmill
The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
Bertrand Russell
Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured and little to be enjoyed.
This world is a comedy to those who think and a tragedy to those who feel.
Horace Walpole
The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution.
Sir Walter Raleigh
Susan Ertz
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
George Bernard Shaw
Art is like morality. Both consist in deciding where to draw the line.
G. K. Chesterton
John F. Kennedy
The whole meaning of literature is simply to cut a long story short.
G. K. Chesterton
Art is a continuation of politics by other means.
Adolf Hitler
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.
Georges Simenon
As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.
Albert Schweitzer
When a man is freed of religion, he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life.
Sigmund Freud
RELIGION: Insurance in this world against fire in the next.
There are no entirely false opinions.
Josef Pieper
A. N. Whitehead
To talk quite reasonably about your own quite real wrongs is the quickest way to go off your head.
G. K. Chesterton
A man has his beliefs: his arguments are only his excuses for them.
George Bernard Shaw
The mind is always the dupe of the heart.
La Rochefoucauld
G. K. Chesterton
In the end it is not argument that convinces us, but people.
John Henry Newman
The first condition of right thought is right sensation.
T. S. Eliot
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
Edward R. Murrow
Experience takes away more than it adds; young people are nearer ideas than old men.
Plato
Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
James Thurber
Nature hates Mind. Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease.
Oscar Wilde
Nothing is serious except passion. The intellect is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.
Oscar Wilde
The closest we can get to impartiality is admitting we are partial.
G. K. Chesterton
Metaphysics is the only thoroughly emotional thing.
G. K. Chesterton
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