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The supreme irony of life is that no one gets out of it alive.
The supreme irony of life is that no one gets out of it alive.
Civilized man has always had a great inclination to read his conceptions and feelings into the mind of primitive man; read more
Civilized man has always had a great inclination to read his conceptions and feelings into the mind of primitive man; but he has only a limited capacity for understanding the latter's undeveloped mental life and for interpreting, as it were, his nature.
We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
Our modern society is engaged in polishing and decorating the cage in which man is kept imprisoned.
Our modern society is engaged in polishing and decorating the cage in which man is kept imprisoned.
Do not be in a hurry to tie what you cannot untie.
Do not be in a hurry to tie what you cannot untie.
I find it valid to understand man as an animal before I am prepared to know him as a man.
I find it valid to understand man as an animal before I am prepared to know him as a man.
The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
The wise man sometimes flees from society from fear of being
bored.
The wise man sometimes flees from society from fear of being
bored.
Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
