In a word, they failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions.

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The urge to transcend self-conscious selfhood is, as I have said, a principal appetite of the soul.

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The urge to escape from selfhood and the environment is in almost everyone almost all the time.

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The end cannot justify the means, for the simple and obvious reason that the means employed determine the nature of the ends produced.

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Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.

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All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects.

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Without economic security, the love of servitude cannot possibly come into existence.

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A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.

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Dream in a pragmatic way.

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Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.

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