There are many kinds of gods. Therefore there are many kinds of men.
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In regard to man's final end, all the higher religions are in complete agreement. The purpose of human life is the discovery of Truth, the unitive knowledge of the Godhead. The degree to which this unitive knowledge is achieved here on earth determines the degree to which it will be enjoyed in the posthumous state. Contemplation of truth is the end, action the means.
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There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Cinema)
What the cinema can do better than literature or the spoken drama is to be fantastic.
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However hard they try, men cannot create a social organism, they can only create an organization. In the process of trying to create an organism they will merely create a totalitarian despotism.
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The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
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It is in the social sphere, in the realm of politics and economics, that the will to order becomes really dangerous.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Moods)
There was a time when I should have felt terribly ashamed of not being up-to-date. I lived in a chronic apprehension lest I might, so to speak, miss the last bus, and so find myself stranded and benighted, in a desert of demodedness, while others, more nimble than myself, had already climbed on board, taken their tickets and set out toward those bright but, alas, ever receding goals of modernity and sophistication.
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Jehovah, Allah, the Trinity, Jesus, Buddha, are names for a great variety of human virtues, human mystical experiences human remorses, human compensatory fantasies, human terrors, human cruelties. If all men were alike, all the world would worship the same God.
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