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You see how wrong I go, how ridiculous I'm making myself in your eyes by keeping on guessing wrong like this! Doesn't…
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That the will of the people can be established by voting for democrats is, of course, a delusion. Yet when considering a…
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The difference between a healthy person and one who is mentally ill is the fact that the healthy one has all the…
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Stupidity is active in every direction, and can dress up in all the clothes of truth. Truth, on the other hand, has…
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Strong emotional experiences are for the most part impersonal. Anyone who has hated another person so much that only chance stands between…
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If there is a sense of reality, there must also be a sense of possibility.
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A man who wants the truth becomes a scientist; a man who wants to give free play to his subjectivity may become…
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True' and 'false' are the evasions of people who never want to arrive at a decision. Truth is something without end.
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It is life that does the thinking all around us, forming with playful ease the connections our reason can only laboriously patch…
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A politician who climbs high over the bodies of the slain is described as vile or great according to the degree of…
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One does what one is; one becomes what one does.
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For only fools, fanatics, and mental cases can stand living at the highest pitch of soul; a sane person must be content…
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The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
— Aristotle
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Remember always that the ultimate value is meditation, so anything you do, do meditatively; and all things can be done in a…
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Since education is not a means to living, but is identical with the operation of living a life which is fruitful and…
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Faith can have a profound impact on health. It is a very personal experience of thought and surrender, which can comfort in…
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Surely there comes a time when counting the cost and paying the price aren't things to think about any more. All that…
— James Hilton
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If we make sacrifices in doing good or in doing ill, it does not alter the ultimate value of our actions; even…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The decision to grow always involves a choice between risk and comfort. This means that to be a follower of Jesus, you…
— John Ortberg
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To love something as an artist ... means to be shaken not by its ultimate value or lack of value, but by…
— Robert Musil
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Jazz music is America's past and its potential, summed up and sanctified and accessible to anybody who learns to listen to, feel,…
— Wynton Marsalis
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It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less…
— Richard Wright
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