"No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is no hero, but because the valet is a valet."
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"Impatience asks for the impossible, wants to reach the goal without the means of getting there. The length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary."
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"The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk."
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"Reading the morning newspaper is the realist's morning prayer."
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"The true courage of civilized nations is readiness for sacrifice in the service of the state, so that the individual counts as only one amongst many. The important thing here is not personal mettle but aligning oneself with the universal."
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"If you want to love you must serve, if you want freedom you must die."
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"The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures."
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"Philosophy is by its nature something esoteric, neither made for the mob nor capable of being prepared for the mob."
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"Quite generally, the familiar, just because it is familiar, is not cognitively understood. The commonest way in which we deceive either ourselves or others about understanding is by assuming something as familiar, and accepting it on that account; with all its pros and cons, such knowing never gets anywhere, and it knows not why.... The analysis of an idea, as it used to be carried out, was, in fact, nothing else than ridding it of the form in which it had become familiar."
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"We learn from history that man can never learn anything from history."
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"Too fair to worship, too divine to love."
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"America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's History shall reveal itself."
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"Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought."
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"A man who has work that suits him and a wife, whom he loves, has squared his accounts with life."
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"What the English call "comfortable" is something endless and inexhaustible. Every condition of comfort reveals in turn its discomfort, and these discoveries go on for ever. Hence the new want is not so much a want of those who have it directly, but is created by those who hope to make profit from it."
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"The force of mind is only as great as its expression; its depth only as deep as its power to expand and lose itself."
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"Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me"
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"The substance, the essence, the Spirit is freedom."
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"Genuine tragedy is a case not of right against wrong but of right against right - two equally justified ethical principles embodied in people of unchangeable will."
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"The state of man's mind, or the elementary phase of mind which he so far possesses, conforms precisely to the state of the world as he so far views it"
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