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- What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.
- The greatest events occur without intention playing any part in them; chance makes good mistakes and undoes the most carefully planned undertaking. The world's greatest…
- The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.
- The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have not made very much progress…
- To see every day how people get the name 'genius' just as the wood-lice in the cellar the name 'millipede'-not because they have that many…
- The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.
- The natural scientists of the previous age knew less than we do and believed they were very close to the goal: we have taken very…
- With God thoughts are colors, with us they are pigments-even the most abstract one may be accompanied by physical pain.
- Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.
- Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be re-taught when the students become teachers.
- How might letters be most efficiently copied so that the blind might read them with their fingers?
- Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under…
- The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.
- The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a…
- With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.
- Some people come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of centipede -- not because they…
- I forget most of what I read, just as I do most of what I have eaten, but I know that both contribute no less…
- To make astute people believe one is what one is not is, in most cases, harder than actually to become what one wishes to appear.
- With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know. — J. J. Abrams
- The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster