"Intellect is a magnitude of intensity, not a magnitude of extensity."
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"Religion is the metaphysics of the masses."
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"Our moral virtues benefit mainly other people; intellectual virtues, on the other hand, benefit primarily ourselves; therefore the former make us universally popular, the latter unpopular."
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"What makes people hard-hearted is this, that each man has, or fancies he has, as much as he can bear in his own troubles."
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"If, while hurrying ostensibly to the temple of truth, we hand the reins over to our personal interests which look aside at very different guiding stars, for instance at the tastes and foibles of our contemporaries, at the established religion, but in particular at the hints and suggestions of those at the head of affairs, then how shall we ever reach the high, precipitous, bare rock whereon stands the temple of truth?"
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"Education perverts the mind since we are directly opposing the natural development of our mind by obtaining ideas first and observations last. This is why so few men of learning have such sound common sense as is quite common among the illiterate."
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"No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose."
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"The reason domestic pets are so lovable and so helpful to us is because they enjoy, quietly and placidly, the present moment."
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"We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack."
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"No one can transcend their own individuality."
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"Life is a language in which certain truths are conveyed to us; if we could learn them in some other way, we should not live."
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"Marrying means doing whatever possible to become repulsed of each other"
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"True brevity of expression consists in a man only saying what is worth saying, while avoiding all diffuse explanations of things which every one can think out for himself."
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"The first forty years of our life give the text, the next thirty furnish the commentary upon it, which enables us rightly to understand the true meaning and connection of the text with its moral and its beauties."
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"Every time a man is begotten and born, the clock of human life is wound up anew to repeat once more its same old tune that has already been played innumerable times, movement by movement and measure by measure, with insignificant variations."
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"It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain."
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"If a man wants to read good books, he must make a point of avoiding bad ones; for life is short, and time and energy limited."
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"To be shocked at how deeply rejection hurts is to ignore what acceptance involves. We must never allow our suffering to be compounded by suggestions that there is something odd in suffering so deeply. There would be something amiss if we didn't."
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"Every new born being indeed comes fresh and blithe into the new existence, and enjoys it as a free gift: but there is, and can be, nothing freely given. It's fresh existence is paid for by the old age and death of a worn out existence which has perished, but which contained the indestructible seed out of which the new existence has arisen: they are one being."
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"When a new truth enters the world, the first stage of reaction to it is ridicule, the second stage is violent opposition, and in the third stage, that truth comes to be regarded as self-evident."
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