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"Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth."
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"Nothing will shake a man-or at any rate a man like me-out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself."
"There are certain truths that occurs to us, which we cannot convey in words, but requires a personal experience to grasp more vividly."
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"Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure."
"The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses."
"The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign."
"What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs."
"Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience."
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"Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth."
"The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it."
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