I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
“light up a lifetime” conveys the idea that hope can have a lasting, life-altering impact.
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I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.
I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results.
The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear!
I’m much more interested in what an actor has to say about something substantial and important than who they’re dating or what clothes they’re wearing or some other asinine, insignificant aspect of their life.
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