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If you look at a map of Europe you will observe that Greece is a skeleton-like hand stretching its crooked fingers out into the Mediterranean Sea.
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Animals eat one another without qualm; civilized men consume one another by due process of law. Co-operation
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He is his own best friend, and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy, and is afraid of solitude.59 Such
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Radicalism is a luxury of stability; we may dare to change things only when things lie steady under our hands.
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A disintegrating individualism had weakened the Athenian character, and left the city a prey at last to the sternly-nurtured Spartans.
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He who leaves his home in search of knowledge walks in the path of God … and the ink of the scholar is holier than the blood of the martyr”;
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Let us trust to ourselves, see all with our own eyes; Let these be our oracles, our tripods and our gods.
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Not to be occupied, and not to exist, amount to the same thing," he said. "All people are good except those who are idle.
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When Germany defeated Napoleon it was a disastrous to culture as when Luther defeated the Church.
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When a band of flute players attempted a musical concert at a triumph in 167, the audience forced the musicians to change their performance into a boxing match.15 In the widening middle classes commercialism
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We must steel ourselves against utopias and be content with a slightly better state.
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In some way the god had to be appeased and satisfied; for his worshipers had made him in the image and dream of themselves, and he had no great regard for human life, or womanly tears.
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If ideas do not determine history, inventions do; and inventions are determined by ideas.
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Fear of death, wonder at the causes of chance events or unintelligible happenings, hope for divine aid and gratitude for good fortune, cooperated to generate religious belief.
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And, after speech, it provided a readier instrument for the dissemination of nonsense than the world has ever known until our time.
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So the conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it—perhaps as much more valuable as roots are more vital than grafts.
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The historian always oversimplifies, and hastily selects a manageable minority of facts and faces out of a crowd of souls and events whose multitudinous complexity he can never quite embrace or comprehend.
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It was his motto that one lived best by the hidden life—bene vixit qui bene latuit.
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Coarse necessities of physical existence drag him from the heights of thought into the mart of economic strife and gain.
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A book is like a quarrel. One word leads to another, and may erupt in blood or print, irrevocably.
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Economic development specializes functions, differentiates abilities, and makes men unequally valuable to their group.
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The worst conceivable government would be by philosophers; they botch every natural process with theory; their ability to make speeches and multiply ideas is precisely the sign of their incapacity for action.
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There are not many things finer in our murderous species than this noble curiosity, this restless and reckless passion to understand.
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Progress is the domination of chaos by mind and purpose, of matter by form and will. It need not be continuous to be real.
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For what is philosophy but an art - one more attempt to give "significant form" to the chaos of experience?
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I thank God,” he used to say, “that I was born Greek and not barbarian, freeman and not slave, man and not woman; but above all, that I was born in the age of
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But he had gained a perspective of thought in which every extreme was seen as a half-truth,
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To confer a kindness is a mark of superiority; to receive one is a mark of subordination .�.�.
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When a man is interested in the past he writes history; when he is interested in the future he makes it.
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Normally and generally men are judged by their ability to produce—except in war, when they are ranked according to their ability to destroy.
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This is the tragedy of almost every civilization—that its soul is in its faith, and seldom survives philosophy.
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