“Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.”
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The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.
Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.
