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- What would become of the garden if the gardener treated all the weeds and slugs and birds and trespassers as he would like to be…
- If individuality has no play, society does not advance; if individuality breaks out of all bounds, society perishes.
- Science seems to me to teach in the highest and strongest manner the great truth which is embodied in the Christian conception of entire surrender…
- All knowledge is good. It is impossible to say any fragment of knowledge, however insignificant or remote from one's ordinary pursuits, may not some day…
- The question of all questions for humanity, the problem which lies behind all others and is more interesting than any of them, is that of…
- The only objections that have occurred to me are, 1st that you have loaded yourself with an unnecessary difficulty in adopting Natura non facit saltum…
- I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing the…
- Let us have "sweet girl graduates" by all means. They will be none the less sweet for a little wisdom; and the "golden hair" will…
- Surely it must be plain that an ingenious man could speculate without end on both sides, and find analogies for all his dreams. Nor does…
- The student of Nature wonders the more and is astonished the less, the more conversant he becomes with her operations; but of all the perennial…
- The foundation of all morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying; to give up pretending to believe that for which there…
- The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental.
- All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.
- Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one's own way at all hazards.
- The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction.
- The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put…
- I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal…
- We live in a world which is full of misery and ignorance, and the plain duty of each and all of us is to try…
- Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to…
- It ought not to be unpleasant to say that which one honestly believes or disbelieves. That it so constantly is painful to do so, is…
- Friendship involves many things but, above all the power of going outside oneself and appreciating what is noble and loving in another.
- Cosmic evolution may teach us how the good and evil tendencies of man may have come about; but, in itself, it is incompetent to furnish…
- The practice of that which is ethically best-what we call goodness or virtue-involves a course of conduct which, in all respects, is opposed to that…
- The foundation of morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying.
- The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.
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- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
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