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- Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else.
- Ethical metaphysics is fundamentally an attempt, however disguised, to give legislative force to our own wishes.
- My conclusion is that there is no reason to believe any of the dogmas of traditional theology and, further, that there is no reason to…
- Religion is based ... mainly upon fear ... fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent of cruelty, and…
- Nothing of importance is ever achieved without discipline. I feel myself sometimes not wholly in sympathy with some modern educational theorists, because I think that…
- But courage in fighting is by no means the only form, nor perhaps even the most important. There is courage in facing poverty, courage in…
- If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason for…
- The essence of life is doing things for their own sakes.
- The discipline in your life should be one determined by your own desires and your own needs, not put upon you by society or authority.
- We know that the exercise of virtue should be its own reward, and it seems to follow that the enduring of it on the part…
- An educator should think of a child as a garderner thinks of a plant, as something to be made to grow by having the right…
- The dictum that human nature cannot be changed is one of those tiresome platitudes that conceal from the ignorant the depths of their own ignorance.
- No people anywhere in the world would accept being expelled en masse from their own country; how can anyone require the people of Palestine to…
- The frequency with which a man experiences lust depends upon his own physical condition, whereas the occasion which rouse such feelings in him depend upon…
- It may seem to your conceited to suppose that you can do anything important toward improving the lot of mankind. But this is a fallacy.…
- If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others,…
- Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world…
- Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the…
- Every isolated passion, is, in isolation, insane; sanity may be defined as synthesis of insanities. Every dominant passion generates a dominant fear, the fear of…
- A good social system is not to be secured by making people unselfish, but, by making their own vital impulses fit in with other peoples.…
- The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness,…
- It is essential to happiness that our way of living should spring from our own deep impulses and not from the accidental tastes and desires…
- No man is liberated from fear who dare not see his place in the world as it is; no man can achieve the greatness of…
- Understanding human nature must be the basis of any real improvement in human life. Science has done wonders in mastering the laws of the physical…
- My own belief is that in most ages and in most places obscure psychological forces led men to adopt systems involving quite unnecessary cruelty, and…
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- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because… — Aristotle
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