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• A man who has humility will have acquired in the last reaches of his beliefs the saving doubt of his own certainty.
• We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world - introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably -…
• The principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of being - which cannot be proved existentially to…
• A useful definition of liberty is obtained only by seeking the principle of liberty in the main business of human life, that…
• When all think alike, then no one is thinking
• It is so much easier to talk of poverty than to think of the poor.
• Art enlarges experience by admitting us to the inner life of others.
• Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.
• There is nothing so bad but it can masquerade as moral.
• The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal.
• Life is an irreversible process and for that reason its future can never be a repetition of the past.
• Politicians tend to live "in character" and many a public figure has come to imitate the journalism that describes him.

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