It is the acquisition of skills in particular, irrespective of their utility, that is potent in making life meaningful. Since man has no inborn skills, the survival of the species has depended on the ability to acquire and perfect skills. Hence the mastery of skills is a uniquely human activity and yields deep satisfaction.
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When you say that you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
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My enemy is not the man who wrongs me, but the man who means to wrong me.
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Reason and action are congeneric and homogenous, two aspects of the same phenomenon.
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Love and envy make a man pine, which other affections do not, because they are not so continual.
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Our quarrel with the world is an echo of the endless quarrel proceeding within us.
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The burning of an author's books, imprisonment for opinion's sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays to the genius of its time.
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Men never do evil so fully and so happily as when they do it for conscience's sake.
Men never do evil so fully and so happily as when they do it for conscience's sake.
