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The acquiring of culture is the development of an avid hunger for knowledge and beauty.
The acquiring of culture is the development of an avid hunger for knowledge and beauty.
Though they seem at opposite poles, fanatics of all kinds are actually crowded together at one end. It is the read more
Though they seem at opposite poles, fanatics of all kinds are actually crowded together at one end. It is the fanatic and the moderate who are poles apart and never meet.
We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an read more
We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an official, a society where enterprise gains no reward and thrift no privileges.
Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction read more
Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to publick opinion. This is the weak point of our defenses, and the part to which the enemies of the system will direct all their attacks. Opinion can be so perverted as to cause the false to seem the true; the enemy, a friend, and the friend, an enemy; the best interests of the nation to appear insignificant, and trifles of moment; in a word, the right the wrong, and the wrong the right.
How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization.
How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization.
Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.
Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.
It is easier to show the disorder that must accompany reform than the order that should follow it.
It is easier to show the disorder that must accompany reform than the order that should follow it.
Against stupidity the very gods fight in vain.
Against stupidity the very gods fight in vain.
Much of what sophisticates loftily refer to as the "complexity" of the real world is in fact the inconsistency in read more
Much of what sophisticates loftily refer to as the "complexity" of the real world is in fact the inconsistency in their own minds.
