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"There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil."
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"An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words."
Experience
"No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it."
History
"Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed."
Wisdom
"It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression."
Expression
"Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains."
Thought
"Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious."
Mankind
"Seek simplicity but distrust it."
Distrust
"Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them."
Civilization
"The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato."
Tradition
"Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them."
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"Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance."
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"If I'm alone too long I think too much, and I'm not interested in doing that. That won't lead anywhere good, I'm sure. If I'm busy I tend to stay out of trouble. An idle mind is the devil's playground."
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"If it wasn't for the devil, we wouldn't be here, would we?"
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"Well one of the times I did a stunt was in the devil's snare room and they lifted me up on a harness and a safety rope really, really high, and they just dropped me down into the devil's snare."
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"The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck."
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"Deal with the Devil if the Devil has a constituency - and don't complain about the heat."
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"Memnoch the Devil happen to be my favorite of all The Vampire Chronicles."
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"It is so stupid of modern civilisation to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it."
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"Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion."
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"Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil."
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