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- Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man cannot read, and…
- If one hesitates in his path, lethim not proceed. Let him respect his doubts, for doubts, too, may have some divinity in them.
- How long shall we sit in our porticoes practising idle and musty virtues, which any work would make impertinent? As if one were tobegin the…
- But I can assure my readers that Walden has a reasonably tight bottom at a not unreasonable, though at an unusual, depth. I fathomed it…
- Who but the Evil One has cried Whoa! to mankind?
- One may almost doubt if the wisest man has learned anything of absolute value by living.
- We, too, were but dwellers onthe shore, like the bittern of the morning; and our pursuit,the wrecks of snails and cockles. Nevertheless, we were contented…
- The lumberers rarely trouble themselves to put out their fires, such is the dampness of the primitive forest; and this is one cause, no doubt,…
- This burnt land was an exceedingly wild and desolateregion. Judging by the weeds and sprouts, it appeared to have been burnt about two years before.…
- The eye which can appreciate the naked and absolute beauty of a scientific truth is far more rare than that whichis attracted by a moral…
- When, in some obscure country town, the farmers come together to a special town meeting, to express theiropinion on some subject which is vexing to…
- We go eastward to realize history and study the works of art and literature, retracingthe steps of the race; we go westward as into the…
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- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — 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 defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle