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Facts" replaced understanding; and knowledge, split into a thousand isolated fragments, no longer generated wisdom.
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Morality, said Jesus, is kindness to the weak; morality, said Nietzsche, is the bravery of the strong; morality, says Plato, is the effective harmony of the whole.
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It is not the race that makes the civilization, it is the civilization that makes the people: circumstances geographical, economic, and political create a culture, and the culture creates a human type.
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When the universe has crushed him man will still be nobler than that which kills him, because he knows that he is dying, and of its victory the universe knows nothing.
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...but which of us has read every line of the Iliad, or the Aeneid, or The Divine Comedy, or Paradise Lost? Only men of epic stomach can digest these epic tales.
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Philosophy begins when one learns to doubt—particularly to doubt one’s cherished beliefs, one’s dogmas and one’s axioms.
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The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself within
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But the new generation had tasted the wine of philosophy; and from this time onward the rich youth of Rome went eagerly to Athens and Rhodes to exchange their oldest faith for the newest doubts.
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But now and then liberty, in the slogans of the strong, means freedom from restraint in the exploitation of the weak.
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The older Romans used temples as their banks, as we use banks as our temples;
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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We have here the fundamental problem of ethics, the crux of the theory of moral conduct. What is justice? -shall we seek righteousness, or shall we seek power? -is it better to be good, or to be strong?
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One of the lessons of history is that the gods can be silent in many languages.
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By and large the poor have the same impulses as the rich, with only less opportunity or skill to implement them
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If we rated greatness by the influence of the great, we will say "Muhammad is the greatest of the great in history
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The fear of capitalism has compelled socialism to widen freedom, and the fear of socialism has compelled capitalism to increase equality. East is West and West is East, and soon the twain will meet.
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You can’t fool all the people all the time,” but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.
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Nature smiles at the union of freedom and equality in our utopias. For freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and when one prevails the other dies.
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In the end, nothing is lost. Every event, for good or evil, has effects forever.
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In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line.
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History reports that the men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things, and the men who can manage money manage all.
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Rome remained great as long as she had enemies who forced her to unity, vision, and heroism. When she had overcome them all she flourished for a moment and then began to die.
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The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.
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So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.
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When liberty exceeds intelligence, it begets chaos, which begets dictatorship.
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The greatest question of our time is not communism vs. individualism, not Europe vs. America, not even the East vs. the West; it is whether men can bear to live without God.
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Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day
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Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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