Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.
Timothy Leary

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.
George Santayana

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
George Santayana

The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.
George Santayana

The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.
George Santayana

What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.
Wallace Stevens

Surely the fact that a uniformed police officer is wearing his hair below his collar will make him no less identifiable as a policeman.
Thurgood Marshall

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.
Abraham Maslow

To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
Andre Malraux

I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn't think I could read, much less write.
George W. Bush

When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
Audre Lorde

I have no fear of being less beautiful, I've always been afraid of not being beautiful.
Isabelle Adjani

All thing I thought I knew; but now confess, the more I know I know, I know the less.
John Owen

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
John D. Rockefeller

The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.
Arthur Conan Doyle

The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It's odd how people waiting for you stand out far less clearly than people you are waiting for.
Jean Giraudoux

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.
William Wordsworth

One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
John W. Gardner