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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man
The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship
Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution
All rising to a great place is by a winding stair
Progress, man's distinctive mark alone,
Not God's, and not the beasts: God is, they are;
Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.
Not God's, and not the beasts: God is, they are;
Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.
A Death in the Desert
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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