"Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness."

Huxley, Aldous on science
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"Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something."

Huxley, Aldous on self-confidence
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"Most human beings have an infinite capacity for taking things for granted."

Huxley, Aldous on apathy
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"Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness."

Cioran, E. M. on music   

"Reason is a whore, surviving by simulation, versatility, and shamelessness."

Cioran, E. M. on reason
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"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."

Auerbach, Berthold on music
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"No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it."

Cioran, E. M. on art   

"Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself."

Cioran, E. M. on insomnia   

"Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off."

Cioran, E. M. on art
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"Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors."

Cioran, E. M. on justice
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"To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten."

Cioran, E. M. on fame   

"When you have understood that nothing is, that things do not even deserve the status of appearances, you no longer need to be saved, you are saved, and miserable forever."

Cioran, E. M. on salvation
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"Let them hate, so long as they fear."

Accius on power
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"It is always in season for old men to learn."

Aeschylus on learning
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"When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in."

Aeschylus on power
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"Death is softer by far than tyranny."

Aeschylus on tyranny   

"The reward of suffering is experience."

Aeschylus on adversity
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"True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance."

Akhenaton on doubt
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"Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties."

Aesop on advice
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"Appearances are deceptive."

Aesop on appearance
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"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."

Aesop on kindness
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