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"Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people."
Morality
"To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all."
God
"The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach."
Science
"To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter."
Education
"I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the ordinary sense of the word. I wanted to get hold of him personally and become his chief of staff."
Content
"In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless."
Self-control
"The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript."
Man
"Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that everyone knows himself essentially guilty."
Fact
"Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness."
Science
"Intolerance is evidence of impotence."
Empowerment
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"Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race."
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Personal Development
"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."
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Personal Development
"The only lesson you can learn from history is that it repeats itself."
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Personal Development
"Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years."
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Personal Development
"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."
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Personal Development
"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..."
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Personal Development
"What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past."
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Personal Development
"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."
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Personal Development
"Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great."
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Personal Development
"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."
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