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"It's impossible to defend oneself in the absence of goodwill."
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"So we are fulfilling our task in preventing serious armament stocks in Iraq within our possibilities."
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Personal Development
"Even if, by some especially unfortunate fate or by the niggardly provision of stepmotherly nature, [the good will] should be wholly lacking in the power to accomplish its purpose; if with the greatest effort it should yet achieve nothing, and only the good will should remain (not, to be sure, as a mere wish but as the summoning of all the means in our power), yet would it, like a jewel, still shine by its own light as something which has its full value in itself."
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"A good will is good not because of what it performs or effects, not by its aptness for the attainment of some proposed end, but simply by virtue of the volition - that is, it is good in itself, and considered by itself is to be esteemed much higher than all that can be brought about by it in favor of any inclination, nay, even of the sum-total of all inclinations... like a jewel, it would still shine by its own light, as a thing which has its whole value in itself."
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"Religions get lost as people do."
People
"Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive."
Positive
"Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old."
Beauty
"We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt."
Life
"In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing."
Love
"Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms."
Life
"Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it."
Truth
"Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency."
Optimism
"The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc."
Life
"There is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the spiritual world, and what we call Evil is only the necessity of a moment in our eternal evolution."
Evil
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