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The officers of a pander division must learn to think and act independently within the framework of the general plan and not wait until they receive orders.

Natural man is unpredictable, opaque, dangerous, like a torrent cascading out of uncharted mountains. At the start, his soul is a jungle without paths or order. And, like a jungle, it must first be cleared and it's growth thwarted.

"Whoever wants to live and enjoy his life today must not be like you and me. Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours"

"And all this, I said, just as today was the case with the beginnings of wireless, would be of no more service to man than as an escape from himself and his true aims, and a means of surrounding himself with an ever closer mesh of distractions and useless activities."

Our whole civilisation was a cemetery where Jesus Christ and Socrates, Mozart and Haydn, Dante and Goethe were but indecipherable names on mouldering stone

A man cannot live intensely except at the cost of the self.

The bourgeois is consequently by nature a creature of weak impulses, anxious, fearful of giving himself away and easy to rule.

'Most men will not swim before they are able to.' Is nit that witty? Naturally, they won't swim! They are born for the solid earth, not for the water. And naturally they won't think. They are made for life, not for thought.

"as speed increases, time appears to shrink, and space to expand"

Oxford and Cambridge had been disastrously slow to introduce science and engineering courses to their curricula. Civil service exams for Foreign Service through the 1880s weighed Greek and Latin higher than scores in the natural sciences.

"Plantations are worth nothing in themselves, were it not for the vast number of slaves they have on them"

There are no great crimes of which sn intelligent man does not feel capable.

".Wit, however, is a dangerous gift for a preacher, a politician or a professor - he is certain to offend the stupid persons who are always in a majority"