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Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.

Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.

Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.

A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.