“You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.”
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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.
So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.
