You used the word "civilization", which means a set of abstractions, symbols, conventions. Experience tends to be vicarious; … - Jack Vance

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A technical failure that shows some attempt at aesthetic expression is of infinitely more value than uninspired success.

Jack Vance

You used the word "civilization", which means a set of abstractions, symbols, conventions. Experience tends to be vicarious; emotions are predigested and electrical; ideas become more real than things.

Abstractions, Civilization, Ideas, Mean, Real, Things

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If religions are diseases of the human psyche, as the philosopher Grintholde asserts, then religious wars must be reckoned the resultant sores and cankers infecting the aggregate corpus of the human race. Of all wars, these are the most detestable, since they are waged for no tangible gain, but only to impose a set of arbitrary credos upon another's mind.

Corpus, Diseases, Impose, Race, Religious, War

Freedom, privileges, options, must constantly be exercised, even at the risk of inconvenience.

Exercised, Freedom, Inconvenience, Inspirational, Motivational, Risk

Good music always defeats bad luck

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While we are alive we should sit among colored lights and taste good wines, and discuss our adventures in far places; when we are dead, the opportunity is past.

Adventure, Adventures, Dead, Good, Past, Wine

What is an evil man? The man is evil who coerces obedience to his private ends, destroys beauty, produces pain, extinguishes life.

Ends, Evil, Man, Men, Pain

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