"Life itself is neither a good nor an evil: life is where good or evil find a place, depending on how you make it for them."
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"No one doubts but that we imagine time from the very fact that we imagine other bodies to be moved slower or faster or equally fast. We are accustomed to determine duration by the aid of some measure of motion."
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"And as this is the obvious appearance of things, it must be admitted, till some hypothesis be discovered, which by penetrating deeper into human nature, may prove the former affections to be nothing but modifications of the latter. All attempts of this kind have hitherto proved fruitless, and seem to have proceeded entirely from that love of simplicity which has been the source of much false reasoning in philosophy."
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"So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise."
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"He was bolder in the daylight-most men are."
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"Natural science physics contains in itself synthetical judgments a priori, as principles. ... Space then is a necessary representation a priori, which serves for the foundation of all external intuitions."
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"The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy."
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"Philosophical discussions habitually make men happy and joyful not frowning and sad."
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"'But the man who is ready to taste every form of knowledge, is glad to learn and never satisfied - he's the man who deserves to be called a philosopher, isn't he?'"
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"'That is the story. Do you think there is any way of making them believe it?' ' Not in the first generation', he said, 'but you might succeed with the second and later generations.'"
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"The simplest and most obvious cause which can there be assigned for any phenomena, is probably the true one."
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"It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home."
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"What the individual can do is to give a fine example, and to have the courage to uphold ethical values .. in a society of cynics."
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"One trait in the philosopher's character we can assume is his love of the knowledge that reveals eternal reality, the realm unaffected by change and decay."
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"'But surely "blind" is just how you would describe men who have no true knowledge of reality, and no clear standard in their mind to refer to, as a painter refers to his model, and which they can study closely before they start laying down rules about what is fair or right or good where they are needed, or maintaining, as Guardians, any rules that already exist.' 'Yes, blind is just about what they are'"
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"Trifles make the sum of life."
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"I had neither the good sense nor the good feeling to know that this was all my fault, and that if I had been easier with Joe, Joe would have been easier with me. I felt impatient of him and out of temper with him; in which condition he heaped coals of fire on my head."
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"The universe, he observed, makes rather an indifferent parent, I am afraid."
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"Thus, cases of injustice, and oppression, and tyranny, and the most extravagant bigotry, are in constant occurrence among us every day. It is the custom to trumpet forth much wonder and astonishment at the chief actors therein setting at defiance so completely the opinion of the world; but there is no greater fallacy; it is precisely because they do consult the opinion of their own little world that such things take place at all, and strike the great world dumb with amazement."
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"Wisdom comes by disillusionment."
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