"Those who deny the existence of the truth postulate the truth of their denial and plainly contradict themselves."
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"Philosophy is the science which considers truth."
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"Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion."
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"I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law."
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"The secret to humor is surprise."
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"An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation."
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"We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone"
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"There's a snake lurking in the grass."
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"Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good."
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"Certitude is seized by some minds, not because there is any philosophical justification for it, but because such minds have an emotional need for certitude."
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"The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms."
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"Nothing is to be preferred before justice."
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"What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common."
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"Science is a match that man has just got alight. He thought he was in a room - in moments of devotion, a temple - and that his light would be reflected from and display walls inscribed with wonderful secrets and pillars carved with philosophical systems wrought into harmony. It is a curious sensation, now that the preliminary splutter is over and the flame burns up clear, to see his hands and just a glimpse of himself and the patch he stands on visible, and around him, in place of all that human comfort and beauty he anticipated - darkness still."
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"It is very significant that some of the most thoughtful and cultured men are partisans of a pure vegetable diet"
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"Nothing can have value without being an object of utility."
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"Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society."
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"What Descartes did was a good step. You have added much several ways, and especially in taking the colours of thin plates into philosophical consideration. If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants."
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"Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish."
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"What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational"
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