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"It is impossible not to envy the man who can dismiss reason, although we know how it must turn out at last."
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"Some people will insult your intelligence by suddenly being nice or nicer to you once you make it - or they think you have."
"Though I have said that I envy the normal man to the last drop of my bile, yet I should not care to be in his place such as he is now (though I shall not cease envying him). No, no; anyway the underground life is more advantageous. There, at any rate, one can, Oh, but even now I am lying! I am lying because I know myself that it is not underground that is better, but something different, quite different, for which I am thirsting, but which I cannot find! Damn underground!"
"However much you possess there's someone else who has more, and you'll be fancying yourself to be short of things you need to exact extent to which you lag behind him."
"The United States transportation system is the envy of the world."
"Now, as you well know, it is not seldom the case in this conventional world of ours - watery or otherwise; that when a person placed in command over his fellow-men finds one of them to be very significantly his superior in general pride of manhood, straightway against that man he conceives an unconquerable dislike and bitterness; and if he have a chance he will pull down and pulverize that subaltern's tower, and make a little heap of dust of it."
"Envy is the slow poison that finally slaughters peace."
"In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins."
"Envy is a sign that you are being overtaken."
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"The final upshot of thinking is the exercise of volition, and of this thought no longer forms a part; but belief is only a stadium of mental action, an effect upon our nature due to thought, which will influence future thinking."
"It will sometimes strike a scientific man that the philosophers have been less intent on finding out what the facts are, than on inquiring what belief is most in harmony with their system."
"Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a nullity. Chaos is pure nothing."
"The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit; and different beliefs are distinguished by the different modes of action to which they give rise."
"A quality is something capable of being completely embodied. A law never can be embodied in its character as a law except by determining a habit. A quality is how something may or might have been. A law is how an endless future must continue to be."
"Doubt is an uneasy and dissatisfied state from which we struggle to free ourselves and pass into the state of belief; while the latter is a calm and satisfactory state which we do not wish to avoid, or to change to a belief in anything else."
"Bad reasoning as well as good reasoning is possible; and this fact is the foundation of the practical side of logic."
"It is impossible not to envy the man who can dismiss reason, although we know how it must turn out at last."
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