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"Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too."
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"I'm not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of hell will break loose... it'll be much harder to detect."
"He fashioned hell for the inquisitive."
"Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too."
"The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way."
"So this is hell. I'd never have believed it. You remember all we were told about the torture-chambers, the fire and brimstone, the "burning marl." Old wives' tales! There's no need for red-hot pokers. Hell is-other people!"
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"Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength."
"Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too."
"Sex can be used either for self-affirmation or for self-transcendence - either to intensify the ego and consolidate the social persona by some kind of conspicuous 'embarkation' and heroic conquest, or else to annihilate the persona and transcend the ego in an obscure rapture of sensuality, a frenzy of romantic passion, more creditably, in the mutual charity of the perfect marriage."
"A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it."
"Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something."
"The rich never have a chance of being neighborly to their equals. The best they can do is feel mawkish about the sufferings of their inferiors, which they can never begin to understand, and to be patronizingly kind."
"In silence, an act is an act is an act. Verbalized and discussed, it becomes an ethical problem ..."
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