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“It is not true that good can follow only from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is true.”

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Whenever known and sufficient causes are available, it is anti-scientific to discard them in favour of a hypothesis that can never be verified.

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The experience of the irrationality of the world has been the driving force of all religious revolution.

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The summum bonum of this [Puritan] ethic is the earning of more and more money combined with the strict avoidance of all enjoyment.

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The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the 'disenchantment of the world.' Precisely the ultimate and…

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Daily and hourly, the politician inwardly has to overcome a quite trivial and all-too-human enemy: a quite vulgar vanity.

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“The ultimately possible attitudes toward life are irreconcilable, and hence their struggle can never be brought to a final conclusion.”

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Henry David Thoreau

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Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good; every action that retards it is evil.

Swami Vivekananda

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John Quincy Adams

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The evil which does me no harm is like the good which in no wise avails me.

Leonardo da Vinci

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Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others.

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Somewhere somebody must have some sense. Men must see that force begets force, hate begets hate, toughness begets toughness. And it is all a…

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The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder.

Frederic Bastiat

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