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The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no commandments.

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Man is an end in himself.

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Charity must be voluntary.

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Every form of happiness if one, every desire is driven by the same motor--by our love for a single value, for the highest potentiality of our own exis...more

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Aristotle may be regarded as the cultural barometer of Western history. Whenever his influence dominated the scene, it paved the way for one of histor...more

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When the law no longer protects you from the corrupt, but protects the corrupt from you – you know your nation is doomed.

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He tried to explain and to convince. He knew, while he spoke, that it was useless, because his words sounded as if they were hitting a vacuum. There w...more

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Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.

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Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration.

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Socialism may be established by force, as in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics—or by vote, as in Nazi (National Socialist) Germany. The degree o...more

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Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?

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Every dictator is a mystic, and every mystic is a potential dictator. A mystic craves obedience from men, not their agreement. He wants them to surren...more

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We, Equality 7-2521, were not happy in those year in the Home of the Students. It was not that the learning was too hard for us. It was that the learn...more

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Whenever anyone accuses some person of being ‘unfeeling,’ he means that that person is just. He means that that person has no causeless emotions and w...more

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They said you were hard and cold and unfeeling.”“But it’s true...I am, in the sense they mean—only have they ever told you in just what sense they mea...more