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"The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript."
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"When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes."
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"You can keep the things of bronze and stone and give me one man to remember me just once a year."
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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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"To depend upon the Will of a Man is Slavery."
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"The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript."
Man
"The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing."
Evil
"To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter."
Education
"Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another."
Fear
"I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning."
Faith
"To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all."
God
"Paganism is wholesome because it faces the facts of life."
Life
"Chinese civilisation is so systematic that wild animals have been abolished on principle."
Animals
"The people who have really made history are the martyrs."
History
"Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales."
Nature
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