"In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by Silence and by Speech acting together, comes a double significance."
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"What is philosophy but a continual battle against custom?"
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"We have profoundly forgotten everywhere that Cash-payment is not the sole relation of human beings."
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"He that will not work according to his faculty, let him perish according to his necessity: there is no law juster than that."
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"Wealth has more and more increased, and at the same time gathered itself more and more into masses, strangely altering the old relations, and increasing the distance between the rich and the poor."
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"The Persians are called the French of the East; we will call the Arabs Oriental Italians. A gifted noble people; a people of wildstrong feelings, and of iron restraint over these: the characteristic of noblemindedness, of genius."
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"Music... a kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads to the edge of the Infinite."
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"The philosopher is he to whom the highest has descended, and the lowest has mounted up; who is the equal and kindly brother of all."
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"Prayer is and remains always a native and deepest impulse of the soul of man."
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"Look around you. Your world-hosts are all in mutiny, in confusion, destitution; on the eve of fiery wreck and madness! They will not march farther for you, on the sixpence a day and supply-demand principle; they will not; nor ought they, nor can they. Ye shall reduce them to order, begin reducing them. to order, to just subordination; noble loyalty in return for noble guidance. Their souls are driven nigh mad; let yours be sane and ever saner."
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"Armed Soldier, terrible as Death, relentless as Doom; doing God's judgement on the Enemies of God. It is a phenomenon not of joyful nature; no, but of awful, to be looked at with pious terror and awe."
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"Freedom is the one purport, wisely aimed at, or unwisely, of all man's struggles, toilings and sufferings, in this earth."
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"Is not every meanest day the confluence of two eternities?"
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"Reform, like charity, must begin at home."
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"Social Science, is not a 'gay science' but rueful, which finds the secret of this universe in 'supply and demand' and reduces the duty of human governors to that of letting men alone. Not a 'gay science', no, a dreary, desolate, and indeed quite abject and distressing one; what we might call, the dismal science"
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"O thou that pinest in the imprisonment of the Actual, and criest bitterly to the gods for a kingdom wherein to rule and create, know this for a truth: the thing thou seekest is already here, "here or nowhere," couldst thou only see."
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"History is philosophy teaching by experience."
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"Great men are the inspired texts of that divine Book of Revelations, whereof a chapter is completed from epoch to epoch, and by some named History."
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"Great men are the modelers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to do and attain."
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"The greatest security against sin is to be shocked at its presence."
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