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«Be suspicious of anything that works perfectly - it's probably because two errors are canceling each other out»

«Do you not know that there comes a midnight hour when every one has to throw off his mask? Do you believe that life will always let itself be mocked? Do you think you can slip away a little before midnight in order to avoid this? Or are you not terrified by it? I have seen men in real life who so long deceived others that at last their true nature could not reveal itself;... In every man there is something which to a certain degree prevents him from becoming perfectly transparent to himself; and this may be the case in so high a degree, he may be so inexplicably woven into relationships of life which extend far beyond himself that he almost cannot reveal himself. But he who cannot reveal himself cannot love, and he who cannot love is the most unhappy man of all.»

«Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.»

«A person is said to have achieved yoga, the union with the Self, when the perfectly disciplined mind gets freedom from all desires, and becomes absorbed in the Self alone.»

«Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.»

«A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.»

«Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.»

«A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.»

«A large part of altruism, even when it is perfectly honest, is grounded upon the fact that it is uncomfortable to have unhappy people about one»

«As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.»