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Success and cynicism are not only achieved; they are also inherited.

That one should have to talk about the mind in metaphors is unfortunate, but inevitable.

The forms change, but the substance remains.

The self, however, is a living organism, and refuses to be denied without a struggle.

The form of institutions and philosophies may change; but the substance that underlies them remains indestructible, because the nature of humanity remains unaltered.

Nothing so simple and so rational can possibly be true.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

The truth is paradoxical; but man’s passion for rational coherence is even stronger than his love of truth.

The nature of the rationalisation is strictly determined by the nature of the intuition.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude, the less it will be drawn towards social religion or be moved by its practices.