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The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures that can be…
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A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with…
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Repetition is the only form of permanence that Nature can achieve.
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Habit is stronger than reason.
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Reason and happiness are like other flowers; they wither when plucked.
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The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt.
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If a man really knew himself he would utterly despise the ignorant notions others might form on a subject in which he…
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Rejection is a form of self-assertion. You have only to look back upon yourself as a person who hates this or that…
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That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.
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Art like life, should be free, since both are experimental.
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The arts must study their occasions; they must stand modestly aside until they can slip in fitly into the interstices of life.
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Is it indeed from the experience of beauty and happiness, from the occasional harmony between our nature and our environment, that we…
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Every real object must cease to be what it seemed, and none could ever be what the whole soul desired.
— George Santayana
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I have spent much time in the study of the abstract sciences; but the paucity of persons with whom you can communicate…
— Blaise Pascal
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When we speak, in gestures or signs, we fashion a real object in the world; the gesture is seen, the words and…
— Emile Chartier
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The real object of the First Amendment was not to countenance, much less advance Mohammedanism, or Judaism or infidelity, by prostrating Christianity;…
— Joseph Story
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The real object of the drama is the exhibition of human character.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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At bottom, no real object is unpoetical, if the poet knows how to use it properly.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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A painting or sculpture not modelled on any real object is every bit as concrete and sensuous as a leaf or a…
— Hans Arp
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Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? Where…
— Patrick Henry
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The mind which is created quick to love, is responsive to everything that is pleasing, soon as by pleasure it is awakened…
— Dante Alighieri
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The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.
— Unknown Author
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