"Ethical metaphysics is fundamentally an attempt, however disguised, to give legislative force to our own wishes."
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"If you question any candid person who is no longer young, he is very likely to tell you that, having tasted life in this world, he has no wish to begin again as a "new boy" in another."
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"The typical Westerner wishes to be the cause of as many changes as possible in his environment; the typical Chinaman wishes to enjoy as much and as delicately as possible."
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"I do wish I believed in the life eternal, for it makes me quite miserable to think man is merely a kind of machine endowed, unhappily for himself, with consciousness."
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"The late F. W. H. Myers used to tell how he asked a man at a dinner table what he thought would happen to him when he died. The man tried to ignore the question, but, on being pressed, replied: "Oh well, I suppose I shall inherit eternal bliss, but I wish you wouldn't talk about such unpleasant subjects.""
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"Never let yourself be diverted, either by what you wish to believe, or what you think could have beneficent social effects if it were believed; but look only and solely at what are the facts."
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"The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation ... it is common to wish well to oneself, but in our technically unified world, wishing well to oneself is sure to be futile unless it is combined with wishing well to others."
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"The evolution of our spirit is blazed on the dark background of eternity by our individual wakes. Every person can, if he/she wishes, leave a more or less brilliant wake behind them."
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"Uncertainty in the pressure of vivid hopes and fears is painful, but must be endured if we wish to live without the support of comforting fairy tales."
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"One of the troubles about vanity is that it grows with what it feeds on. The more you are talked about, the more you will wish to be talked about."
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"The thing that I should wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security."
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"Education ought to foster the wish for truth, not the conviction that some particular creed is the truth."
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"Oh, I wish I was young again when everything seemed so wonderful!"
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"I wish I'd watched less TV."
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"Civil wars are the greatest of evils. They are inevitable, if we wish to reward merit, for all will say that they are meritorious."
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"Do you wish people to speak well of you? Then do not speak at all yourself."
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"When we wish to correct with advantage, and to show another that he errs, we must notice from what side he views the matter, for on that side it is usually true."
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"Rivers are highways that move on and bear us whither we wish to go."
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"We must make good people wish that the Christian faith were true, and then show that it is."
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"You hung with me when all the others turned away, turned up their noses We liked the same music, we liked the same bands, we liked the same clothes Yeah we told each other that we were the wildest, the wildest things we'd ever seen Now I wish you would have told me, I wish I could have talked to you Just to say goodbye, Bobby Jean."
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