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- Perhaps our originality manifests itself most strikingly in what we do with that which we did not originate. To discover something wholly new can be…
- The aspiration toward freedom is the most essentially human of all human manifestations.
- In the alchemy of man's soul almost all noble attributes- courage, honor, love, hope, faith, duty, loyalty, and so on - can be transmuted into…
- Our originality shows itself most strikingly not in what we wholly originate but in what we do with that which we borrow from others.
- One word characterizes the most strenuous of the efforts for the advancement of science that I have made perservereingly during fifty-five years; that word is…
- The remarkable thing is that it is the crowded life that is most easily remembered. A life full of turns, achievements, disappointments, surprises, and crises…
- The most gifted members of the human species are at their creative best when they cannot have their way, and must compensate for what they…
- A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed.
- I can never forget that one of the most gifted, best educated nations in the world, of its own free will, surrendered its fate into…
- Starting out from the fact that the frustrated predominate among the early adherents of all mass movements and that they usually join of their own…
- Though dissenters seem to question everything in sight, they are actually bundles of dusty answers and never conceived a new question. What offends us most…
- Often, the thing we pursue most passionately is but a substitute for the one thing we really want and cannot have.
- Freedom means freedom from forces and circumstances which would turn man into a thing, which would impose on man the passivity and predictability of matter.…
- Unity and self-sacrifice, of themselves, even when fostered by the most noble means, produce a facility for hating. Even when men league themselves mightily together…
- Take man's most fantastic invention- God. Man invents God in the image of his longings, in the image of what he wants to be, then…
- The most effective way to silence our guilty conscience is to convince ourselves and others that those we have sinned against are indeed depraved creatures,…
- To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth. Though it is held before our eyes, pushed under our noses, rammed down…
- The original insight is most likely to come when elements stored in different compartments of the mind drift into the open, jostle one another, and…
- You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
- Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.
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