"Self-recognition is necessary to know one's road, but,……" — Randolph Bourne
"Self-recognition is necessary to know one's road, but, knowing the road, the price of the mistakes and perils is worth paying. The following of that road will be all the discipline one needs. Discipline does not mean being molded by outside forces, but sticking to one's road against the forces that would deflect or bury the soul. People speak of finding one"
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21 Quotes by Randolph Bourne
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Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
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War is the Health of the State.
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One keeps healthy in wartime...by a vigorous assertion of values in which war has no part.
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In your reaction to an imagined attack on your country or an insult to its government, you draw closer to…
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War is the health of the State. It automatically sets in motion throughout society these irresistible forces for uniformity, for…
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Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the…
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No matter what we have come through, or how many perils we have safely passed, or how many imperfect and…
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The State is not the nation, and the State can be modified and even abolished in its present form, without…
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We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear. Although we can never rivet our…
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The ironic life is a life keenly alert, keenly sensitive, reacting promptly with feelings of liking or dislike to each…
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He who mounts a wild elephant goes where the elephant goes.
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A good discussion increases the dimensions of everyone who takes part.
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