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| The human mind is not rich enough to drive many horses abreast and wants one general scheme, under which it strives to bring everything. |
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| The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape. |
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| The little word is has its tragedies: it marries and identifies different things with the greatest innocence; and yet no two are ever identical, and if therein lies the charm of wedding them and calling them one, therein too lies the danger. |
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| The loftiest edifices need the deepest foundations. |
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| The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend.The Life of Reason, 1905-1906 |
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| The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise. |
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| The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others. |
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| The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age. |
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| The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character. |
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| The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk. |
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| The quality of wit inspires more admiration than confidence |
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| The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication. |
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| The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures that can be suggested, compared with the poverty of those that can at any time be felt. |
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| The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life, though an artificial setting and form. |
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| The tide of evolution carries everything before it, thoughts no less than bodies, and persons no less than nations |
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| The true Christian is in all countries a pilgrim and a stranger |
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| The true contrast between science and myth is more nearly touched when we say that science alone is capable of verification |
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| The truth is cruel, but it can be loved and it makes free those who have loved it |
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