"The demons of animism were usually hostile to man, but it seems as though man had more confidence in himself in those days than later on."

History, Confidence, Belief, Humanity, Spirit

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"The demons of animism were usually hostile to man, but it seems as though man had more confidence in himself in those days than later on."

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"Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine."

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"Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief."

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"What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books."

Progress, Books, Content, Now

"Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces."

Illusion, Complaint, Pain, Pleasure, Reality

"Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it."

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"The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind."

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"America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success."

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"America is a mistake, a giant mistake."

Mistake, America

"I have found little that is "good" about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think."

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"If youth knew; if age could."

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"Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"The commonplace books of the old Puritans were invaluable to them. They would never have been able to compile such works as they did if they had not been careful in collecting and arranging their matter under different heads."

Charles Spurgeon, British Clergyman

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"The only lesson you can learn from history is that it repeats itself."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"Mankind have a little corrupted nature, for they were not born wolves, and they have become wolves; God has given them neither cannon of four-and-twenty pounders, nor bayonets; and yet they have made cannon and bayonets to destroy one another."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"Hasn't there always been a moon?""Bless you. Not in the slightest. I remember the day the moon came. We looked up in the sky--it was all dirty brown and sooty gray here then, not green and blue..."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

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"What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"Aristotle may be regarded as the cultural barometer of Western history. Whenever his influence dominated the scene, it paved the way for one of history's brilliant eras; whenever it fell, so did mankind."

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

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"Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"Robbing people of their actual history is the same as robbing them of part of themselves. It's a crime."Fuka-Eri thought about that for a moment.Tengo went on, "Our memory is made up of our individual memories and our collective memories. The two are intimately linked. And history is our collective memory. If our collective memory is taken from us - is rewritten - we lose the ability to sustain our true selves."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

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