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"Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought."
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"When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes."
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"Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze."
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"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good."
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"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act."
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"Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too."
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"Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat."
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"No man may make another free."
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"Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men."
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"Do we elect a man because of what he stands for, because of where he stands on the issues, because how he makes the nation feel?"
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"Individual ambition is undoubtedly a strong motive in student work, but there is such a thing among students everywhere as ambition for others, call it class spirit, esprit de corps, good fellowship, or good will to men."
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"Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions."
Heroism

"Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature."
Nature

"The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom."
History

"Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights."
Rights

"Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond."
Truth

"Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it."
Life

"We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be professionals to acquire knowledge of matters of universal interest."
Knowledge

"Education is the art of making man ethical."
Art

"An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think."
Creativity

"Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it."
History
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