It is not sheer malice that pricks our ears to evil reports about our fellow men. For there are frequent moments when we feel lower than the lowest of mankind, and this opinion of ourselves isolates us. Hence the rumor that all flesh is base comes almost as a message of hope. It breaks down the wall that has kept us apart, and we feel one with humanity.
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Our quarrel with the world is an echo of the endless quarrel proceeding within us.
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The craving to change the world is perhaps a reflection of the craving to change ourselves.
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A healthy appetite for righteousness, kept in due control by good manners, is an excellent thing; but to "hunger and thirst" after it is often merely a symptom of spiritual diabetes.
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Again men have been kept back as by a kind of enchantment from progress in science by reverence for antiquity, by the authority of men counted great in philosophy, and then by general consent.
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...originality consists of the achievement of new combinations, and not of the creation of something out of nothing.
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A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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The power of habit and the charm of novelty are the two adverse forces which explain the follies of mankind.
The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.
The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.
