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Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer
1 month 3 weeks ago
Rascals are always sociable - more's...

Rascals are always sociable - more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company.

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Vol. 1, Ch. 5, § 9
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Charles Sanders Peirce
Charles Sanders Peirce
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The one intelligible theory of the...

The one intelligible theory of the universe is that of objective idealism, that matter is effete mind, inveterate habits becoming physical laws. But before this can be accepted it must show itself capable of explaining the tridimensionality of space, the laws of motion, and the general characteristics of the universe, with mathematical clearness and precision ; for no less should be demanded of every Philosophy.

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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
1 month 3 weeks ago
A good marriage would be between...

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

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Book III, Ch. 5
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Epicurus
Epicurus
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Those who were best able to...

Those who were best able to provide themselves with the means of security against their neighbors, being thus in possession of the surest guarantee, passed the most agreeable life in each other's society; and their enjoyment of the fullest intimacy was such that, if one of them died before his time, the survivors did not mourn his death as if it called for sympathy.

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John Locke
John Locke
1 month 3 weeks ago
Let me give two cautions....

Let me give two cautions. 1) The one is, that you keep them to the practice of what you would have grow into a habit with them, by kind words, and gentle admonitions, rather as minding them of what they forget, than by harsh rebukes and chiding, as if they were wilfully guilty. 2) Another thing you are to take care of, is, not to endeavour to settle too many habits at once, lest by variety you confound them, and so perfect none. When constant custom has made any one thing easy and natural to 'em, and they practice it without reflection, you may then go on to another.

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Henri Bergson
Henri Bergson
1 week 5 days ago
I cannot escape the objection that...

I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.

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An Introduction to Metaphysics (1903), translated by T. E. Hulme. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1912, p. 44
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Epictetus
Epictetus
2 months 4 days ago
Some of their faults people readily...

Some of their faults people readily admit, but others not so readily.

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Book II, ch. 21, 1
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Karl Marx
Karl Marx
1 month 2 weeks ago
Everyone has a goal which appears...

Everyone has a goal which appears to be great, at least to himself, and is great when deepest conviction, the innermost voice of the heart, pronounces it great. ... This voice, however, is easily drowned out, and what we thought to be inspiration may have been created by the fleeting moment and again perhaps destroyed by it. ... We must seriously ask ourselves, therefore, whether we are really inspired about a vocation, whether an inner voice approves of it, or whether the inspiration was a deception, whether that which we took as the Deity's calling to us was self-deceit. But how else could we recognize this except by searching for the source of our inspiration?

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Writings of the Young Marx on Philosophy and Society, L. Easton, trans. (1967), p. 36
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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
1 month 2 weeks ago
She with one breath attunes the...

She with one breath attunes the spheres, And also my poor human heart.

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"Inspiration", in An American Anthology, 1900
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George Santayana
George Santayana
1 week 5 days ago
The empiricist thinks he believes only...

The empiricist thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at seeing.

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"Objections to Belief in Substance", p. 201
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Thomas Aquinas
Thomas Aquinas
2 months 1 week ago
Now, as the Word of God...

Now, as the Word of God is the Son of God, so the love of God is the Holy Spirit.

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Art. 8
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Thomas Nagel
Thomas Nagel
1 month 1 week ago
It is often remarked that nothing...

It is often remarked that nothing we do now will matter in a million years. But if that is true, then by the same token, nothing that will be the case in a million years matters now.

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"The Absurd" (1971), p. 11.
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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
2 weeks 6 days ago
He had no failings which were...

He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

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The reference is to Charles Townshend
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C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
1 month 2 weeks ago
I call this Divine humility because...

I call this Divine humility because it is a poor thing to strike our colours to God when the ship is going down under us; a poor thing to come to Him as a last resort, to offer up "our own" when it is no longer worth keeping. If God were proud He would hardly have us on such terms: but He is not proud, He stoops to conquer, He will have us even though we have shown that we prefer everything else to Him, and come to Him because there is "nothing better" now to be had.

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David Hume
David Hume
1 month 3 weeks ago
In a word, human life is...

In a word, human life is more governed by fortune than by reason; is to be regarded more as a dull pastime than as a serious occupation; and is more influenced by particular humour, than by general principles. Shall we engage ourselves in it with passion and anxiety? It is not worthy of so much concern. Shall we be indifferent about what happens? We lose all the pleasure of the game by our phlegm and carelessness. While we are reasoning concerning life, life is gone; and death, though perhaps they receive him differently, yet treats alike the fool and the philosopher.

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Part I, Essay 18: The Sceptic
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Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant
1 month 3 weeks ago
Philosophical knowledge is the knowledge gained...

Philosophical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from concepts; mathematical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from the construction of concepts.

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A 713, B 741
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John Locke
John Locke
1 month 3 weeks ago
Truly, if the preservation of all...

Truly, if the preservation of all mankind, as much as in him lies, were every one's persuasion, as indeed it is every one's duty, and the true principle to regulate our religion, politicks and morality by, the world would be much quieter, and better natur'd than it is.

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Jean Paul Sartre
Jean Paul Sartre
1 month 2 weeks ago
I hate victims who respect their...

I hate victims who respect their executioners.

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Loser Wins (Les Séquestrés d'Altona: A Play in Five Acts)
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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
2 weeks 6 days ago
Since the House had been prorogued...

Since the House had been prorogued in the summer, much work was done in France. The French had shown themselves the ablest architects of ruin that had hitherto existed in the world. In that very short space of time, they had completely pulled down to the ground their monarchy, their church, their nobility, their law, their revenue, their army, their navy, their commerce, their arts, and their manufactures.

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Speech in the House of Commons (9 February 1790), quoted in The Parliamentary History of England, From the Earliest Period to the Year 1803, Vol. XXVIII (1816), column 354
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Jesus
Jesus
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The kingdom of heaven can be...

The kingdom of heaven can be compared to a king who wanted to settle accounts with his slaves.

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18:23
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Herbert Spencer
Herbert Spencer
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Equity knows no difference of sex....

Equity knows no difference of sex. In its vocabulary the word man must be understood in a generic, and not in a specific sense.

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Pt. II, Ch. 16 : The Rights of Women
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C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
1 month 2 weeks ago
My argument against God was that...

My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?

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Book II, Chapter 1, "The Rival Conceptions of God"
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comfortdragon
comfortdragon
4 weeks 1 day ago
By convention sweet is sweet...
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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
2 months 2 weeks ago
Earth is a ball that is...

Earth is a ball that is over 12,000 kilometres in diameter, and if it were modelled into an object the size of a billiard ball, with all its surface unevenness reproduced exactly to scale, the model would be smoother than an ordinary billiard ball and the ocean would be an all but unnoticeable mist of dampness over 70 percent of its surface.

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Miguel de Unamuno
Miguel de Unamuno
6 days ago
Our life is a hope which...

Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope. Give us leave to live! The eternity that is like an eternal present, without memory and without hope, is death. Thus do ideas exist in the God-Idea, but not thus do men live in the living God, in the God-Man.

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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
1 month 2 weeks ago
A world without delight and without...

A world without delight and without affection is a world destitute of value.

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The Scientific Outlook, 1931
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Simone Weil
Simone Weil
5 days ago
Dadaism and surrealism ... represented the...

Dadaism and surrealism ... represented the intoxication of total license, the intoxication in which the mind wallows when it has made a clean sweep of value and surrendered to the immediate. The good is the pole towards which the human spirit is necessarily oriented, not only in action but in every effort, including the effort of pure intelligence. The surrealists have set up non-oriented thought as a model; they have chosen the total absence of value as their supreme value. Men have always been intoxicated by license, which is why, throughout history, towns have been sacked. But there has not always been a literary equivalent for the sacking of towns. Surrealism is such an equivalent.

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"The responsibility of writers," p. 167
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Herbert Marcuse
Herbert Marcuse
1 week 5 days ago
Society ... can afford to grant...

Society ... can afford to grant more than before because its interests have become the innermost drives of its citizens.

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p. 72
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Emmanuel Levinas
Emmanuel Levinas
2 weeks 1 day ago
By asserting the objectivity of the...

By asserting the objectivity of the physical world, naturalism identifies the existence and the conditions of existence of the physical world with existence and the conditions of existence in general. It forgets that the world of the physicist necessarily refers back, through its intrinsic meaning, through the subjective world which one tries to exclude from reality as being pure appearance, conditioned by the empirical nature of man, which is incapable of reaching directly to a world of things in themselves. But while the world of the physicist claims to go beyond naive experience, his world really exists only in relation to naive experience.

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The Theory Of Intuition In Husserls Phenomenology 1963, 1995 p. 9
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Colin Wilson
Colin Wilson
2 days ago
This in turn suggests an answer...

This in turn suggests an answer to our question: what happened between the birth of De Sade and the birth of Krafft-Ebbing? The rise of the novel taught Europe to use its imagination. And when imagination was applied to sex, the result was the rise of pornography -- and of "sexual perversion."

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Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault
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There is no power relation without...

There is no power relation without the correlative constitution of a field of knowledge, nor any knowledge that does not presuppose and constitute at the same time power relations.

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Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale
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Women crave for being loved, not...

Women crave for being loved, not for loving. They scream out at you for sympathy all day long, they are incapable of giving any in return, for they cannot remember your affairs long enough to do so... They cannot state a fact accurately to another, nor can that other attend to it accurately enough for it to become information. Now is not all this the result of want of sympathy?... I am sick with indignation at what wives and mothers will do of the most egregious selfishness. And people call it all maternal or conjugal affection, and think it pretty to say so. No, no, let each person tell the truth from their own experience.

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Letter to Mary Clarke Mohl (13 Dec 1861), published in Florence Nightingale on Women, Medicine, Midwifery and Prostitution: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale (2005), Volume 8, edited by Lynn McDonald, p. 84
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Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer
1 month 3 weeks ago
Men are by nature merely indifferent...

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

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Vol. 2 "On Women" as translated in Essays and Aphorisms (1970), as translated by R. J. Hollingdale
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
1 month 2 weeks ago
The great thing however is, in...

The great thing however is, in the show of the temporal and the transient to recognize the substance which is immanent and the eternal which is present. For the work of Reason (which is synonymous with the Idea) when considered in its own actuality, is to simultaneously enter external existence and emerge with an infinite wealth of forms, phenomena and phases - a multiplicity that envelops its essential rational kernel with a motley outer rind with which our ordinary consciousness is earliest at home. It is this rind that the Concept must penetrate before Reason can find its own inward pulse and feel it still beating even in the outward phases. But this infinite variety of circumstances which is formed in this element of externality by the light of the rational essence shining in it - all this infinite material, with its regulatory laws - is not the object of philosophy....To comprehend what is, is the task of philosophy: and what is is Reason.

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Works, VII, 17.
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Simone Weil
Simone Weil
5 days ago
Celui qui ignore à quel point...

He who does not realize to what extent shifting fortune and necessity hold in subjection every human spirit, cannot regard as fellow-creatures nor love as he loves himself those whom chance separated from him by an abyss. The variety of constraints pressing upon man give rise to the illusion of several distinct species that cannot communicate.

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p. 192
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Charles Sanders Peirce
Charles Sanders Peirce
2 weeks 1 day ago
Do not block the way of...

Do not block the way of inquiry.

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Vol. I, par. 135
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Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault
1 month 2 weeks ago
A real subjection is born mechanically...

A real subjection is born mechanically from a fictitious relation. So it is not necessary to use force to constrain the convict to good behavior, the madman to calm, the worker to work, the schoolboy to application, the patient to the observation of the regulations.

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Part Four, Complete and austere institutions
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Epictetus
Epictetus
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Since it is Reason which shapes...

Since it is Reason which shapes and regulates all other things, it ought not itself to be left in disorder.

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Book I, ch. 17, 1.
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Herbert Marcuse
Herbert Marcuse
1 week 5 days ago
Dialectical logic undoes the abstractions of...

Dialectical logic undoes the abstractions of formal logic and of transcendental philosophy, but it also denies the concreteness of immediate experience. To the extent to which this experience comes to rest with the things as they appear and happen to be, it is a limited and even false experience. It attains its truth if it has freed itself from the deceptive objectivity which conceals the factors behind the facts - that is, if it understands its world as a historical universe, in which the established facts are the work of the historical practice of man.

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Martin Luther
Martin Luther
1 month 3 weeks ago
All the passages in the Holy...

All the passages in the Holy Scriptures that mention assistance are they that do away with "free-will", and these are countless...For grace is needed, and the help of grace is given, because "free-will" can do nothing.

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p. 270
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Karl Marx
Karl Marx
1 month 2 weeks ago
Capital is money, capital is commodities....

Capital is money, capital is commodities. ... By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

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Vol. I, Ch. 4, pp. 171-172
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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
2 months 2 weeks ago
Titles are an important part of...

Titles are an important part of a story and I take considerable care in choosing one. In fact, I cannot start a story until I have chosen a title.

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Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale
1 day ago
The martyr sacrifices herself (himself in...

The martyr sacrifices herself (himself in a few instances) entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for she (or he) makes the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

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As quoted in Forever Yours (1990) by Martha Vicinus and Bea Nergaard , p. 275. Letter, c. 1867, to the scholar Benjamin Jowett.
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Roland Barthes
Roland Barthes
5 days ago
Myth deprives the object of which...

Myth deprives the object of which it speaks of all history. In it, history evaporates.

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p. 151
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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
2 weeks 6 days ago
The use of force alone is...

The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
1 month 2 weeks ago
The gods sell anything to everybody...

The gods sell anything to everybody at a fair price.

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Quotation and Originality
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Herbert Spencer
Herbert Spencer
2 weeks 5 days ago
It is provable both that the...

It is provable both that the historical sequence was, in its main outlines, a necessary one; and that the causes which determined it apply to the child as to the race. ...as the mind of humanity placed in the midst of phenomena and striving to comprehend them has, after endless comparisons, speculations, experiments, and theories, reached its present knowledge of each subject by a specific route; it may rationally be inferred that the relationship between mind and phenomena is such as to prevent this knowledge from being reached by any other route; and that as each child's mind stands in this same relationship to phenomena, they can be accessible to it only through the same route. Hence in deciding upon the right method of education, an inquiry into the method of civilization will help to guide us.

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Emil Cioran
Emil Cioran
2 weeks 1 day ago
Pursued by our origins...we all are.

Pursued by our origins...we all are.

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Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley
1 month 2 weeks ago
It is not only when it...

It is not only when it takes the form of physical addiction that sex is evil. It is also evil when it manifests itself as a way of satisfying the lust for power or the climber's craving for position and social distinction.

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Ch. 14, p. 358 [2012 reprint]
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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
1 month 2 weeks ago
Where there is a lull of...

Where there is a lull of truth, an institution springs up. But the truth blows right on over it, nevertheless, and at length blows it down.

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