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That the world is in a bad shape is undeniable, but there is not the faintest reason in history to suppose that…
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I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a…
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If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.
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But if thought is to become the possession of many, not the privilege of the few, we must have done with fear.…
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This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the second chance were…
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One must expect a war between U.S.A. and U.S.S.R. which will begin with the total destruction of London. I think the war…
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Power is sweet; it is a drug, the desire for which increases with a habit.
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The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress, without which human…
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Life is just one cup of coffee after another, and don't look for anything else.
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Almost all education has a political motive: it aims at strengthening some group, national or religious or even social, in the competition…
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Drunkeness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.
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Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.
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Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.
— Marcus Aurelius
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You never find yourself until you face the truth.
— Pearl Bailey
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The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
— James A. Baldwin
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I think that you have to do everything you can do to empower girls when they are young, from their education, to…
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I think you have to know who you are. Get to know the monster that lives in your soul, dive deep into…
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A man is never astonished that he doesn't know what another does, but he is surprised at the gross ignorance of the…
— Thomas Chandler Haliburton
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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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A man should first direct himself in the way he should go. Only then should he instruct others.
— Gautama Buddha
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The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.
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If you believe in yourself enough and know what you want, you're gonna make it happen.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
— F. H. Bradley
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There is more to be pondered in the grain and texture of life than traditional fiction allows. The work of essayists is…
— Charles J. Shields
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