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"Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom."
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"Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect."
"Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement."
"Don't speak of action [effect]. Don't serve the action [effect]. It is a result. But serve the causes [do the causes]. Nothing will be achieved unless you serve the cause."
"An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason."
"A stable, changeless state, 'twere cause indeed to weep."
"As much purity one has within, his external circumstances will be that much more favorable. As much impurity there is within, there will be a corresponding amount of unfavorable external circumstances."
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"The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles."
"Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction."
"We have no higher life that is really apart from other people. It is by imagining them that our personality is built up; to be without the power of imagining them is to be a low-grade idiot."
"There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposing to some one at some time."
"The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds."
"The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self."
"Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture."
"One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide."
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