“Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent enough, in most cases, to find correct explanations. So that when he acts on his theories, he behaves very often like a lunatic.”
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“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”
― Music at Night and Other Essays
― Music at Night and Other Essays
“There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.”
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“The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.”
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“No social stability without individual stability.”
― Brave New World
― Brave New World
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