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I have always held the religion of Muhammad in high estimation because of its wonderful vitality. It is the only religion which appears to me to possess that assimilating capability to the changing phase of existence which can make itself appeal to every age... I have studied him - the wonderful man, and in my opinion far from being an Anti-Christ he must be called the Saviour of Humanity.
I have always held the religion of Muhammad in high estimation because of its wonderful vitality. It is the only religion which appears to me to possess that assimilating capability to the changing phase of existence which can make itself appeal to every age... I have studied him - the wonderful man, and in my opinion far from being an Anti-Christ he must be called the Saviour of Humanity.
We are more gullible and superstitious today than we were in the Middle Ages, and an example of modern credulity is the widespread belief that the Earth is round. The average man can advance not a single reason for thinking that the Earth is round. He merely swallows this theory because there is something about it that appeals to the twentieth century mentality.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.
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There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders wherever your children do
Nietzche . . . he was a confirmed Life Force worshipper. It was he who raked up the Superman, who is as old as Prometheus; and the 20th century will run after this newest of the old crazes when it gets tired of the world, the flesh, and your humble servant.
Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
Liberty is the breath of life to nations.
You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.
There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no doubt that parents are the worst.
When a bishop at the first shot abandons the worship of Christ and rallies his flock round the altar of Mars, he may be acting patriotically... but that does not justify him in pretending...that Christ is, in effect, Mars.
You have set up in New York Harbor a monstrous idol which you call Liberty. The only thing that remains to complete that monument is to put on its pedestal the inscription written by Dante on the gate of hell: All hope abandon ye who enter here.
The theory that music has a depraving effect on morals has now been abandoned to the old women of both sexes.
Of all human struggles there is none so treacherous and remorseless as the struggle between the artist man and the mother woman.
My mother married a very good man ... and she is not at all keen on my doing the same.
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But a mother is like a broomstick or like the sun in the heavens, it does not matter which as far as one\'s knowledge of her is concerned: the broomstick is there and the sun is there; and whether the child is beaten by it or warmed and enlightened by it, it accepts it as a fact in nature, and does not conceive it as having had youth, passions, and weaknesses, or as still growing, yearning, suffering, and learning.
But a mother is like a broomstick or like the sun in the heavens, it does not matter which as far as one's knowledge of her is concerned: the broomstick is there and the sun is there; and whether the child is beaten by it or warmed and enlightened by it, it accepts it as a fact in nature, and does not conceive it as having had youth, passions, and weaknesses, or as still growing, yearning, suffering, and learning.
There is only one person an English girl hates more than she hates her elder sister; and that is her mother.