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Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people

Whatever harsh criticisms may be passed on the construction of her sentences, she at least possesses that one touch of vulgarity that makes the whole world kin.

Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching. Our splendid physique as a people is entirely due to our national stupidity.

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.

When a voice behind me whispered low,"That fellow's got to swing."

All that I desire to point out is the general principle that Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life.

Missionaries are going to reform the world whether it wants to or not.

The English country gentleman galloping after a fox -- the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.

The only possible form of exercise is to talk, not to walk.

I was born in the night of the second and third Of January, ninety-something-or-other, An unreliable year, and the centuries Surround me with fire.

The degree of panic activity in my life is equal to the degree of my lack of personal spiritual experience.

The Bible attitude is not that God sends sickness or that sickness is of the devil, but that sickness is a fact usable by both God and the devil.

the greatest dissipater of our relationship to God is personal sympathy and personal prejudice.

The Bible says that Eve was deceived, it does not say that Adam was deceived; consequently Adam is far more responsible than Eve because he sinned deliberately.

It is one of the greatest achievements of Nietzsche that he confronted science with the problem of the

Nature is to be handeled scientifically, History poetically. Everything else is an impure solution.

Men of a future Culture, with other souls and other passions, will hardly be able to resist the conviction that 'in those days' Nature herself was tottering.

Student: "Can you do problem number twelve?" Wyler: Twelve?...NO!...That problem is on the test.

There was a faggot of pine wood lying by the hearth, waiting to be cut up small.

psychoanalytic institutes as monasteries or religious retreats and psychoanalysis as a system of religious beliefs. Whereas

These comments have been offered by those who abuse the privilege of being stupid, but I thank them for their interest.

When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.

The danger of insanity is always present in those who try to penetrate the discipline of logic and pure knowledge.

Pearl's temper absolutely unbearable, and caused her to break her ivory hair-brush upon her maid's shoulders.