#society

There is a difference between the creative idea and the creative act on the one hand, and the product on the other.

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Man did not enter into society to become worse than he was before, nor to have fewer rights than he had before, but to

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Under any circumstances, sociability is the greatest advantage in the struggle for life.

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The history of human growth and development is at the same time the history of the terrible struggle of every new idea

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Everyone by nature desires that the rest of mankind should live according to his own individual disposition: when such a

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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel

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Morality is neither rational nor absolute nor natural. World has known many moral systems, each of which claims universality;...

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The truth is introduced – and with that it enters into the process of history. But unfortunately this does not (as so

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There is nothing in the world more difficult than candor, and nothing easier than flattery. If there is a hundredth of

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All men saved from the scattering influences of society by a powerful incentive, a cause, or an ideal of individual perfection,...

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Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.

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It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man. If he

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As scarce as the truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.

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I love mankind, but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.

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Society expresses its sympathy for the geniuses of the past to distract attention from the fact that it has no intention

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The secret of a full life is to live and relate to others as if they might not be there tomorrow, as if you might not be

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Generally the need of solitude is a sign that there is spirit in a man after all, and it is a measure for what spirit there

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The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

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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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The average mind is slow in grasping a truth, but when the most thoroughly organized, centralized institution, maintained at

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You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes, and they are right too. You came out of an education

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Those who long for the triumph of justice, those who would put new ideas into practice, are soon forced to recognize that

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The truly sociable man is more difficult in his relationships than others; those which consist only in false appearances

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