The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
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The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
Man is only man at the surface. Remove the skin, dissect, and immediately you come to machinery.
A painter should not paint what he sees but what should be seen.
God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.
God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.