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Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.
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Endurance is the crowning quality...
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Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.
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Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.
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Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
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Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical.
Source: Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy -
Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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Folks never understand the folks they hate.
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Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.
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For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike, I should say, result from paucity of experience.
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Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.
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Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.
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Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.
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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.
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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.
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Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime . Not failure, but low aim is crime.
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Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.
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