Quotes 1261 till 1280 of 1714.
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The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified.
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The happiness of society is the end of government.
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The higher a man stands, the more the word ''vulgar'' becomes unintelligible to him.
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The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
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The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.
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The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.
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The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.
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The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power.
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The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted: thence proceeds mawkishness.
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The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
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The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.
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The intensity of your desire governs the power with which the force is directed.
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The key to my success has been to give up everything for my dream.
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The lie, of course, is more interesting.
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The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.
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The love of Our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
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The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
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The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier form of fraud. The basic forms are all known, have all been practiced. The manners of capitalism improve. The morals may not.
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