#choices

If desire should absolutely align with reason at some point then we will reason and not want, essentially because it will

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I do not want to believe it although it is palpable: the great majority of people lack an intellectual conscience… I mean:

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One recognizes one’s course by discovering the paths that stray from it.

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A man has not everything to do, but something; and because he cannot do everything, it is not necessary that he should

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Men have their choice in this world. They can be angels, or they may be demons.

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It is proper to reconsider whether or not one should carry out any rash undertaking, or anything not thoroughly thought through,...

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One rarely falls into a single error. Falling into the first one, one always does too much. So one usually perpetrates

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We are responsible to ourselves for our own existence; consequently we want to be the true helmsman of this existence and

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People today have so little imagination that they cannot conceive of any choice but the choice between capitalism and

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This endeavour to do a thing or leave it undone, solely in order to please men, we call ambition, especially when we so

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When one has once accepted and absorbed Evil, it no longer demands to be believed.

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Others obey their own lead, follow their own impulses. Don’t be distracted. Keep walking. Follow your own nature, and

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Man is very willing to obey the law of duty, serve his country, and oblige his friends; but he wishes to labor when he pleases,...

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Why shouldn’t I eat toothpaste? It’s a free world. Why shouldn’t I chew my toenails? I happen to have trodden in some honey.

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

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You don’t have to turn this into something. It doesn’t have to upset you. Things can’t shape our decisions by themselves.

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Every day brings with it a fresh batch of work, and a man throws himself into his bed late at night without having

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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is

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We ought not to choose every pleasure, but that which tends to something good.

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I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.

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Don’t say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

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The days come and go like muffled and veiled figures, sent from a distant friendly party; but they say nothing, and if we do

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"One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself."...