James Fitzjames Stephen Quotes
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Originally consists in thinking for yourself, and not in thinking unlike other people.
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Parliamentary government is simply a mild and disguised form of compulsion. We agree to try strength by counting heads instead of breaking heads, but the…
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Each must act as he thinks best; and if he is wrong, so much the worse for him. We stand on a mountain pass in…
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The only shape in which equality is really connected with justice is this - justice presupposes general rules. If these general rules are to be…
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Thus hope, aided by imagination, makes one man a hero, another a somnambulist, and a third a lunatic; while it renders them all enthusiasts.
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The things which cannot be adequately represented by words are more important than those which can.
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Not only are the varieties of morality innumerable, but some of them are conflicting with each other.
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A well-judging man will open his trunk-line of study in such a direction that, while habitually adhering to it, he may enjoy a ready access…
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