Experience, which destroys innocence, also leads one back to it.
Terror is the instinct that tells you to run, dear God, run, she murmured. Run for your life. But it just makes you into meat. Predators take the ones who run. Horror is the mind-thing, the worm of knowledge you can't stop turning over no matter how awful it is. It grows in your mind and destroys you by your own intelligence.
Great is paint; nay, God is the painter; and we rightly accuse the critic who destroys too many illusions. Society does not love its unmaskers.
The lack of work destroys people.
Time perfects men as well as destroys them.
Nothing is worse than extreme affliction which destroys the "I" from the outside, because after that we can no longer destroy it ourselves.
The dissolution of the nation destroys the national religion, and dethrones the national deity.
Curious how Love destroys every vestige of that politeness which the human race, in its years of evolution, has so painfully acquired.
Information is the mortar that both builds and destroys empires.
The society that destroys its children is eating its own tail, committing suicide in the most perverse way.
Hate smolders and eventually destroys, not the hated but the hater.
The public loves to create a hero. . . . Sometimes I think they do it for the sheer joy of knocking him down from the highest peak. Like a child who builds a house of blocks and then destroys it with one vicious kick.
The spirit of commerce is frugality, economy, moderation, labor, ponderance, tranquillity, order, and rule. So long as this spirit subsides, the riches it produces have no bad effect. The mischief is when excessive wealth destroys the spirit of commerce, then it is that the conveniences of inequality. . . are felt.
Your readiest desire is your path to joy. . . even if it destroys you.
Good is that which promotes life, evil is that which destroys life
In nature nothing creates itself and nothing destroys itself.
Every crime destroys more Edens than our own
Money is needed to bring about many good things but when your heart is attached, it destroys you
One who loves his community destroys community; one who loves its members builds community.
To be a criminal needs great unconsciousness. Meditation destroys your unconsciousness, opens the doors of light and suddenly what you were doing in the darkness starts disappearing.