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After silence, that which comes nearer to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is Music.
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An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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Chastity...the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.
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Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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Facts are ventriloquists dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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Facts do not cease to exists because they are ignored.
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I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh.
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Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations.
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One of the great attractions of patriotism -- it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.
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Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
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Speed provides the one great modern pleasure.
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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
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Those who believe they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.
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To us, the moment 8:17 A.M. means something - something very important, if it happens to be the starting time of our daily train. To our ancestors, such an odd eccentric instant was without significance - did not even exist. In inventing the locomotive, Watt and Stevenson were part inventors of time.
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Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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