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- There is no surer way to misread any document than to read it literally. ... As nearly as we can, we must put ourselves in…
- The mid-day sun is too much for most eyes; one is dazzled even with its reflection. Be careful that too broad and high an aim…
- We shall succeed only so far as we continue that most distasteful of all activity, the intolerable labor of thought.
- Each one of us must in the end choose for himself how far he would like to leave our collective fate to the wayward vagaries…
- We all have our prayer-wheels which we set up on the steppes. The indifferent winds come and carry most of them away to gasp out…
- We may win when we lose, if we have done what we can; for by so doing we have made real at least some part…
- For myself it would be most irksome to be ruled by a bevy of Platonic Guardians, even if I knew how to choose them, which…
More Most Quotes
- 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