25 quotes
Are we a dream in the mind of a deity, or is each of us a separate dreamer, evoking his own reality?
Julian (1964)
They say to know oneself is to know all there is that is human. But of course no one can ever know himself. Nothing human is finally calculable; even to ourselves we are strange.
Julian (1964)
In a good cause hypocrisy becomes a virtue.
Julian (1964)
Despite all evidence to the contrary I do not believe humans innately cruel, but they fear change of any kind.
Julian (1964)
The rhetoric of hate is often most effective when couched in the idiom of love.
Julian (1964)
Books always cost more in those cities where they are least read!
Julian (1964)
The folly of the clever is always more than that of the dull.
Julian (1964)
On the throne of the world, any delusion becomes fact.
Julian (1964)
Constantinople has no past; only a noisy present and a splendid future, if the auguries are to be believed.
Julian (1964)
Vengeance must end somewhere, and what better place to stop than at the prince?
Julian (1964)
Traitors who prevail are patriots; usurpers who succeed are divine emperors.
Julian (1964)
Modern Christianity is a encyclopedia of traditional superstition.
Julian (1964)
There is no terror equal that of the ignorant in a strange place.
Julian (1964)
Men are odd. If they cannot be first, they don't in the least mind being last.
Julian (1964)
How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself.
Julian (1964)
We are all so simple at heart that we become unfathomable to one another.
Julian (1964)
By definition a bore is predictable. if you think you know in advance what a man is apt to say or do, you are not apt to be disagreeably surprised by him.
Julian (1964)
No one can tell another man is true. Truth is all around us...Truth is where ever man has glimpsed divinity.
Julian (1964)
It is one thing to use text to illustrate a point one is making, but quite another to quote merely to demonstrate the excellence of one's memory.
Julian (1964)
...for ferocity there is nothing on Earth equal a Christian bishop hunting "heresy", as they call any opinion contrary to their own.
Julian (1964)