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The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered.

There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.

I look upon another’s insistence on the merits of his or her life – duties, intellect, accomplishment – and see that most of it is nonsense.

Liberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific.

There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited.

When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.

The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness.

We conceal it from ourselves in vain – we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.