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- There are two things which make it impossible to believe that this world is the successful work of an all-wise, all-good, and at the same…
- Suicide may also be regarded as an experiment - a question which man puts to Nature, trying to force her to answer. The question is…
- The greatest wisdom is to make the enjoyment of the present the supreme object of life; because that is the only reality, all else being…
- A man never is happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so; he seldom attains his…
- If a man wants to read good books, he must make a point of avoiding bad ones; for life is short, and time and energy…
- Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.
- It is a clumsy experiment to make; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer.
- If people insist that honor is dearer than life itself, what they really mean is that existence and well-being are as nothing compared with other…
- It is the courage to make a clean breast of it in the face of every question that makes the philosopher. He must be like…
- Our moral virtues benefit mainly other people; intellectual virtues, on the other hand, benefit primarily ourselves; therefore the former make us universally popular, the latter…
- Man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so.
- Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.
- It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.
- It is a wise thing to be polite; consequently, it is a stupid thing to be rude. To make enemies by unnecessary and willful incivility,…
- It often happens that we blurt out things that may in some kind of way be harmful to us, but we are silent about things…
- The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting.
- One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books: bad books are intellectual poison; they destroy the mind. In order…
- A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.
- Students and scholars of all kinds and of every age aim, as a rule, only at information, not insight. They make it a point of…
- Monotheistic religions alone furnish the spectacle of religious wars, religious persecutions, heretical tribunals, that breaking of idols and destruction of images of the gods, that…
- Exaggeration of every kind is as essential to journalism as it is to dramatic art, for the object of journalism is to make events go…
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