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Indeed, intolerance is essential only to monotheism; an only God is by nature a jealous God who will not allow another to live. On the other hand, polytheistic gods are naturally tolerant, they live and let live.

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Every state of welfare, every feeling of satisfaction, is negative in its character; that is to say, it consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of existence.

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To desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake

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Music is the answer to the mystery of life. The most profound of all the arts, It expresses the deepest thoughts of life.

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Life is a business that does not cover the costs.

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Das Ganze der Erfahrung gleicht einer Geheimschrift und die Philosophie der Entzifferung derselben. The whole of experience is like a cryptograph, and philosophy is like the deciphering of it.

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The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

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...nothing at all rides on the life or death of the individual.

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Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, "Lighthouses" as the poet said "erected in the sea of time." They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind, Books are humanity in print.

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A man may call to mind the face of his friend, but not his own. Here, then, is an initial difficulty in the way of applying the maxim, Know Thyself.

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The highest, most varied and lasting pleasures are those of the mind.

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The progress of life shows a man the stuff of which he is made.

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Our moral virtues benefit mainly other people; intellectual virtues, on the other hand, benefit primarily ourselves; therefore the former make us universally popular, the latter unpopular.

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The old woman dies, the burden is lifted.

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The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost are and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten.

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To conceal a want of real ideas, many make for themselves an imposing apparatus of long compound words, intricate flourishes and phrases, new and unheard-of expressions, all of which together furnish an extremely difficult jargon that sounds very learned. Yet with all this they say-precisely nothing.

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It is difficult to keep quiet if you have nothing to do

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The general history of art and literature shows that the highest achievements of the human mind are, as a rule, not favourably received at first.

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Vengeance taken will often tear the heart and torment the conscience.

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...this our world, which is so real, with all its suns and milky ways is-nothing.

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