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Science is a match that man has just got alight. He thought he was in a room - in moments of devotion, a temple - and that his light would be reflected from and display walls inscribed with wonderful secrets and pillars carved with philosophical systems wrought into harmony. It is a curious sensation, now that the preliminary splutter is over and the flame burns up clear, to see his hands and just a glimpse of himself and the patch he stands on visible, and around him, in place of all that human comfort and beauty he anticipated - darkness still.

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I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach!

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The connection between our knowledge and the abyss of being is still real, and the explication must be not less magnificent.

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The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

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Can an ass be tragic?--To perish under a burden that one can neither bear nor cast off? The case of the philosopher.

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People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.

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All literature, all philosophical treatises, all the voices of antiquity are full of examples for imitation, which would all lie unseen in darkness without the light of literature.

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Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved.

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What I think about vivisection is that if people admit that they have the right to take or endanger the life of living beings for the benefit of many, there will be no limit to their cruelty.

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In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.

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No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.

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There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.

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Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.

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And right action is freedom From past and future also.

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Man is by nature a political animal.

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Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.

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The Antichrist, Section 7

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God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

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It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

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The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.

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