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The philosopher ought never to try to avoid the duty of making up his mind.

Science arose from poetry… when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.

Do not trust to the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you and I were going to be hanged.

The sovereignty of one’s self over one’s self is called Liberty.

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

Habit is the nursery of errors.