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To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.

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Not everything is supposed to become something beautiful and long-lasting. Sometimes people come into your life to show you

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Morality is neither rational nor absolute nor natural. World has known many moral systems, each of which claims universality;...

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It seems to me at times that I am incapable of beginning a life in real life, because it has seemed to me that I have lost

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Christianity was from the beginning, essentially and fundamentally, life’s nausea and disgust with life, merely

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The higher man is distinguished from the lower by his fearlessness and his readiness to challenge misfortune.

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The truth is introduced – and with that it enters into the process of history. But unfortunately this does not (as so

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I notice that Autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.

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People with new ideas, people with the faintest capacity for saying something new, are extremely few in number,

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I love those who do not know how to live except by going under, for they are those who cross over.

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There is nothing in the world more difficult than candor, and nothing easier than flattery. If there is a hundredth of

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All men saved from the scattering influences of society by a powerful incentive, a cause, or an ideal of individual perfection,...

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I have a longing for life, and I go on living in spite of logic. Though I may not believe in the order of the universe, yet

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There is no ‘a priori’ reason for supposing that the truth, when it is discovered, will necessarily prove interesting.

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There is nothing so powerful as truth — and often nothing so strange.

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I despise my own hypersensitiveness, which requires so much reassurance. It is certainly abnormal to crave so much to be

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Truth is eternal, knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them.

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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.

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It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man. If he

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This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.

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By natural selection our mind has adapted itself to the conditions of the external world. It has adopted the geometry

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The measure of a person’s disposition is this: how far is he from what he understands to what he does, how great is the

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Blessed are the forgetful; for they get over their stupidities, too.

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