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Take your work seriously, but never yourself.
Take your work seriously, but never yourself.
Any good practical philosophy must start out with the recognition of our having a body.
Any good practical philosophy must start out with the recognition of our having a body.
The nature of a society is largely determined by the direction in which talent and ambition flow--by the tilt of read more
The nature of a society is largely determined by the direction in which talent and ambition flow--by the tilt of the social landscape.
When our individual interests and prospects do not seem worth living for, we are in desperate need for something apart read more
When our individual interests and prospects do not seem worth living for, we are in desperate need for something apart from us to live for. All forms of dedication, devotion, loyalty and self-surrender are in essence a desperate clinging to something which might give worth and meaning to our futile, spoiled lives.
A people is but the attempt of many
To rise to the completer life of one--
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A people is but the attempt of many
To rise to the completer life of one--
And those who live as models for the mass
Are singly of more value than they all.
The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s and 1980s hundreds of millions of people will read more
The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s and 1980s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death...
No amount of artificial reinforcement can offset the natural inequalities of human individuals.
No amount of artificial reinforcement can offset the natural inequalities of human individuals.
All of us necessarily hold many casual opinions that are ludicrously wrong simply because life is far too short for read more
All of us necessarily hold many casual opinions that are ludicrously wrong simply because life is far too short for us to think through even a small fraction of the topics that we come across.
Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.
Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.
