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All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State. -
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Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it. -
153To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything. Vedavyas
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To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that... -
140It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money. Vedavyas
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It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money. -
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There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. -
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Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question. -
644Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful. Vedavyas
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Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful. -
656We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves. Vedavyas
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We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves. -
174We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die. Vedavyas
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We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die. -
158For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium. Vedavyas
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For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are... -
686By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more. Vedavyas
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By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more. -
156After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books. Vedavyas
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After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books. -
654
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A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing. -
628The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. Vedavyas
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The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. -
225The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding. Vedavyas
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The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding. -
648
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The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth. -
684The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor. Vedavyas
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The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that... -
667
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Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face. -
687
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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads? -
676
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Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.