| Quotes |
Topic |
| Fantasy | To be matter of fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy -- and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful. |
| Finance and Economics | The greatest productive force is human selfishness. |
| Future | A generation which ignores history has no past and no future. |
| Learning | Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself. |
| Government | If "everybody knows" such-and-such, then it ain't so, by at least ten thousand to one. |
| Government | A monarch's neck should always have a noose around it -- it keeps him upright. |
| Government | No intelligent man has any respect for an unjust law. |
| Government | Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed. |
| Government | There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him. |
| Government | Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny. |
| Government | The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. |
| Psychological Subjects | Beauty is not diminished by being shared. |
| Psychological Subjects | Avoid making irrevocable decisions when tired or hungry. |
| Psychological Subjects | To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods. |
| Psychological Subjects | The hardest part of gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche. |
| Psychological Subjects | Obscurity is the refuge of incompetence. |
| Psychological Subjects | A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity. |
| Psychological Subjects | Being intelligent is not a felony. But most societies evaluate it as at least a misdemeanor. |
| Psychological Subjects | Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things. |
| Psychological Subjects | Sex should be friendly. Otherwise stick to mechanical toys; it's more sanitary. |
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