“Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.”
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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.
Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.