Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company o...f the like-minded, the fellow afflicted.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Man cannot bury his meanings so deep in his book, but time and like-minded men will find them. Plato had a secret doctrine, had he...? What secret can he conceal from the eyes of Bacon? of Montaigne? of Kant? Therefore, Aristotle said of his works, "They are published and not published."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To associate with other like-minded people in small, purposeful groups is for the great majority of men and women a source of prof...ound psychological satisfaction. Exclusiveness will add to the pleasure of being several, but at one; and secrecy will intensify it almost to ecstasy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Like most vigorous-minded men, seeing that there was no stopping-place between dogma and negation, he preferred to accept dogma. O...f all weaknesses he most disliked timed and half-hearted faith. He would rather have jumped at once to Strong's pure denial, than yield an inch to the argument that a mystery was to be paltered with because it could not be explained.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... it is a commonplace that men like war. For peace, in our society, with the feeling we have then that it is feeble-minded to st...rive except for one's own private profit, is a lonely thing and a hazardous business. Over and over men have proved that they prefer the hazards of war with all its suffering. It has its compensations.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Television's perfect. You turn a few knobs, a few of those mechanical adjustments at which the higher apes are so proficient, and ...lean back and drain your mind of all thought. And there you are watching the bubbles in the primeval ooze. You don't have to concentrate. You don't have to react. You don't have to remember. You don't miss your brain because you don't need it. Your heart and liver and lungs continue to function normally. Apart from that, all is peace and quiet. You are in the man's nirvana. And if some poor nasty minded person comes along and says you look like a fly on a can of garbage, pay him no mind. He probably hasn't got the price of a televion set.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
With five to ten hundred pure-minded young women threading the streets of the village every evening unattended, vice must slink aw...ay, like frost before the rising sun ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »