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- the only way in which a human being can make some approach to knowing the whole of a subject, is by hearing what can be…
- Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those…
- The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt…
- The human faculties of perception, judgment, discriminative feeling, mental activity, and even moral preference, are exercised only in making a choice. He who does anything…
- ...to bring a child into existence without a fair prospect of being able, not only to provide food for its body, but instruction and training…
- So true is that unnatural generally means only uncustomary, and that everything which is usual appears natural.
- Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness; on the happiness of others, on the improvement…
- He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.
- The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community against his will is to prevent harm to…
- If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in…
- One person with a belief is equal to force of ninety-nine who have only one interest.
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- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
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- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
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