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- Nothing can be lower or more wholly instrumental than the substance and cause of all things.
- The vital straining towards an ideal, definite but latent, when it dominates a whole life, may express that ideal more fully than could the best…
- The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of…
- People are usually more firmly convinced that their opinions are precious than that they are true.
- Every nation thinks its own madness normal and requisite; more passion and more fancy it calls folly, less it calls imbecility.
- Love is at once more animal than friendship and more divine ...
- Sex endows the individual with a dumb and powerful instinct, which carries his body and soul continually towards another, makes it one of the dearest…
- The quality of wit inspires more admiration than confidence
- Man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body. He may like to go alone for a walk,…
- What is more important in life than our bodies or in the world than what we look like?
- With an artist no sane man quarrels, any more than with the colour of a child's eyes.
- Nietzsche was personally more philosophical than his philosophy. His talk about power, harshness, and superb immorality was the hobby of a harmless young scholar and…
- The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
- The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.
- Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.
- 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…
- There are books in which the footnotes, or the comments scrawled by some reader's hand in the margin, are more interesting than the text. The…
- To feel beauty is a better thing than to understand how we come to feel it. To have imagination and taste, to love the best,…
- Christianity persecuted, tortured, and burned. Like a hound it tracked the very scent of heresy. It kindled wars, and nursed furious hatreds and ambitions... Man,…
- Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell…
- Our character ... is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely…
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- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
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- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle