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Kemajuan bukanlah ilusi, itu terjadi, tetapi lambat dan selalu mengecewakan.

Bagi manusia biasa, cinta tidak berarti apa-apa jika tidak berarti mencintai beberapa orang lebih dari yang lain.

Mitos yang diyakini cenderung menjadi kenyataan.

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

Seperti yang saya menulis, manusia terbang tinggi di atas kepala, mencoba membunuh saya.

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

Menulis buku adalah perjuangan yang mengerikan dan melelahkan, seperti pertarungan lama tentang beberapa penyakit yang menyakitkan.

Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.

Siapa pun yang menang pada saat ini akan selalu tampak tak terkalahkan.

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.

Realitas ada dalam pikiran manusia, tidak ada di tempat lain.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.

Secara keseluruhan, manusia ingin menjadi baik, tetapi tidak terlalu baik, dan tidak cukup sepanjang waktu.