“The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.”
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It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.
The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous.
Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.
From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.
