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"Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors."
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"Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name."
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"Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith."
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"The real propaganda is what-if we are genuinely a living member of a nation-we tell ourselves because we have hope, hope being a symbol of a nation's instinct of self-preservation. To remain blind to the unjustness of the cause of the individual "Germany," to recognise at every moment the justness of the cause of the individual "France," the surest way was not for a German to be without judgement, or for a Frenchman to possess it, it was, both for the one and for the other, to be possessed of patriotism."
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"How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?"
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"What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends."
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"The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.--The Fruit Hunters."
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"I'm a universal patriot...my country is the world."
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"The English nation is never so great as in adversity."
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"We Americans... bear the ark of liberties of the world."
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"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it."
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"Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them."
Time
"Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies."
Nature
"Writers may be classified as meteors, planets, and fixed stars. They belong not to one system, one nation only, but to the universe. And just because they are so very far away, it is usually many years before their light is visible to the inhabitants of this earth."
Literature
"Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right."
Nation
"With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy."
Talent
"Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money."
Happiness
"We seldom think of what we have but always of what we lack."
Gratitude
"Every society requires mutual accommodation and mutually agreeable temper; hence the larger it is, the duller."
Society
"Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly."
History
"NOT to my contemporaries, not to my compatriots but to mankind I commit my now completed work in the confidence that it will not be without value for them, even if this should be late recognised, as is commonly the lot of what is good. For it cannot have been for the passing generation, engrossed with the delusion of the moment, that my mind, almost against my will, has uninterruptedly stuck to its work through the course of a long life.preface to the second edition of "the world as will and representation."
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