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"Fool! The Ideal is in thyself, the impediment too is in thyself: thy Condition is but the stuff thou art to shape that same Ideal out of: what matters whether such stuff be of this sort or that, so the Form thou give it be heroic, be poetic? 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 of a truth: the thing thou seekest is already with thee, 'here or nowhere,' couldst thou only see!"
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"All great peoples are conservative."
Conservative

"The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious."
Difference

"Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts."
Silence

"The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity."
Life

"Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries."
Ego

"It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see."
Heart

"A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus."
Perspective

"To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself."
Man

"I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance."
Wisdom

"Thought is the parent of the deed."
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"Men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, because they are afraid to look back."
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"There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong."
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Personal Development

"Truth! Freedom! Justice! And a hard-boiled egg!"
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Personal Development

"Fool! The Ideal is in thyself, the impediment too is in thyself: thy Condition is but the stuff thou art to shape that same Ideal out of: what matters whether such stuff be of this sort or that, so the Form thou give it be heroic, be poetic? 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 of a truth: the thing thou seekest is already with thee, 'here or nowhere,' couldst thou only see!"
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Personal Development

"There is only one ideal in the world, which is, the light of knowledge " the light of truth."
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Personal Development

"It is only in marriage with the world that our ideals can bear fruit divorced from it they remain barren."
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Personal Development

"The concepts of Joss are pure, and express attitudes and technical ideals."
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"When you get a principle on which everyone is agreed, you get the beginning of complacency and deterioration."
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"Our ideals are our better selves."
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"I wish to say that we Anarchists have never changed our position. We are Anarchists as of old and still pursue the same ideals."
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