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Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.

It was only from an inner calm that man was able to discover and shape calm surroundings.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.

In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day.

I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.

Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.

Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.