Quotes 641 till 655 of 655.
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A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.
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A person well satisfied with themselves is seldom satisfied with others, and others, rarely are with them.
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Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.
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Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.
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Although men flatter themselves with their great actions, they are not so often the result of a great design as of chance.
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Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.
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Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves.
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Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.
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The afflicted are not listened to. They are like someone whose tongue has been cut out and who occasionally forgets the fact. When they move their lips no ear perceives any sound. And they themselves soon sink into impotence in the use of language, because of the certainty of not being heard.
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The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as is possible in the society of today, that union between manual and intellectual labor which characterizes the society we are aiming at.
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There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.
Tales by Edgar Allan Poe (1927) 349 -
They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves.
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To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves.
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We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.
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