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"You might think that it would he the natural desire of every man to develop as an independent personality, but this does not seem to be true."
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"Perhaps it is better not to tell what you wish. if you cannot have it."
"Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself."
"We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes."
"When you focus on want, you become an endless cycle of wants. To get, simply release, and then gently invite."
"I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited."
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"The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists."
"The principle of equity first came into evidence in Roman jurisprudence and was derived by analogy from the physical meaning of the word."
"What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos."
"We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge, just as Christianity emerged from the ruins of the Roman civilization."
"It does not seem that the contradiction which exists between the aristocratic function of art and the democratic structure of modern society can ever be resolved."
"It is already clear, after twenty years of socialism in Russia, that if you do not provide your society with a new religion, it will gradually revert to the old one."
"Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence."
"The sense of historical continuity, and a feeling for philosophical rectitude cannot, however, be compromised."
"I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority."
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