Good words.
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To mature consists not in renouncing our desires, but in admitting that the world is not obliged to fulfill them. (#455)
Taste does not dishonor itself by virtue of what it likes or detests, but rather by virtue of what it erroneously equates. (#1,801)
The hand that has not learned how to caress does not know how to write. (#1,728)
Modern man does not love, but takes refuge in love; does not hope, but takes refuge in hope; does not believe, but takes refuge in a dogma. (#408)
Replacing the concrete sense perception of the object with its abstract intellectual construction makes man gain the world and lose his soul. (#2,614)
To corrupt the individual it suffices to teach him to call his personal desires rights and the rights of others abuses. (#2,314)
A man is wise if he has no ambition for anything but lives as if he had an ambition for everything. (#635)
There is an illiteracy of the soul which no diploma cures. (#1,570)
The mob only believes it is thinking freely when its reason surrenders itself into the hands of collective enthusiasms. (#755)
Social problems are the favorite refuge of those fleeing their own problems. (#1,137)
The progressive believes that everything soon becomes obsolete, except his ideas. (#419)
Resistance is futile when everything in the world is conspiring to destroy what we admire.
We are always left, however, with an incorruptible soul, so that we might contemplate, judge, and disdain. (#510)
Denying that a “human nature” exists is the ideological trick the optimist employs to defend himself against history. (#1,124)