Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?'

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Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.

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True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.

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We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets - we remember only.

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One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses.

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Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.

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The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them.

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It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.

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We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests.

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The real enemy can always be met and conquered, or won over. Real antagonism is based on love, a love which has not recognized itself.

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