“Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.”
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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.
A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.
A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.
What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.
