1. “The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.”
2. “You cannot throw words like heroism and sacrifice and nobility and honor away without abandoning the qualities they express.”
3. “The ultimate cynicism is to suspend judgement so that you are not judged.”
4. “The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.”
5. “It is privilege of living to be acutely agonizingly conscious of the moment that is always present and always passing.”
6. “You cannot know what you do not feel.”
7. “Euthanasia… is simply to be able to die with dignity at a moment when life is devoid of it.”
8. “Generosity with strings is not generosity: it is a deal.”
9. “One is as one is, and the love that can’t encompass both is a poor sort of love.”
10. “A high standard of living is usually accompanied by a low standard of thinking.”
11. “The greatest miracle of all, the human being.”
12. “Human progress had so often been checked by those who were afraid of losing what they had.”
13. “Self-restraint may be alien to the human temperament, but humanity without restraint will dig its own grave.”
14. “In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.”
15. “Infants are interesting only to their parents.”
16. “The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained.”
17. “The more people are reached by mass communication, the less they communicate with each other.”
18. “The right to choose death when life no longer holds meaning not only the net liberation but the last human right.”
19. “Everybody likes to see somebody else get caught for the vices practiced by themselves.”
20. “People in horse look better than they are. People in cars look worse than they are.”
21. “All great lovers are articulate and verbal seduction is the surest road for actual selection.”
22. “To know the good is to react against the bad. Indifference is the mark of deprivation.”
23. “Is there no end to this escalation of desire?”
24. “Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent.”
25. “There is nothing harder to come by than detachment and solitude; and nothing more important.”
26. “It is marvellous thing to be physically a woman if only to know the marvels of a man.”
27. “Art can excite, titillate, please, entertain and sometimes shock; but its ultimate function is to ennoble.”
28. “The world of sight is still limitless. It is the artist who limits vision to the cramped dimension of his own ego.”
29. “Flirtation is merely an expression of considered desire coupled with an admission of its impracticability.”
30. “It’s never what you say, but how you make it sound sincere.”
