(Mankind) is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.
Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.
The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.
But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome
A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.
A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing America in a phrase.
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