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It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
A Preface to Morals (1929)
Ideals are imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible.
A Preface to Morals (1929)
The man who says that the world is a machine has really advanced no further than to say that he is so well satisfied with the analogy that he is through with searching any further.
A Preface to Morals (1929)
[L]ove, in spite of the romantics, is not self-sustaining; it endures only when the lovers love many things together, and not merely each other.
A Preface to Morals (1929)
[W]hether or not birth control is eugenic, hygienic, and economic, it is the most revolutionary practice in the history of sexual morals.
A Preface to Morals (1929)
[T]he modern man who has ceased to believe, without ceasing to be credulous, hangs, as it were, between heaven and earth, and is at rest nowhere.
A Preface to Morals (1929)
There are no conventions, no tabus, no gods, no priests, princes, fathers, or revelations which they must accept. ... The prison door is wide open. They stagger out into trackless space under a blinding sun.
A Preface to Morals (1929)