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In the depths of his soul Ivan Ilyich knew that he was dying... he simply did not, he could not possibly understand it. The example of a syllogism he ...more

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We are all brothers, and yet I live by receiving a salary for arraigning, judging and punishing a thief or a prostitute, whose existence is conditione...more

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Instead of the former divinely appointed aims of the Jewish, Greek, or Roman nations, which ancient historians regarded as representing the progress o...more

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The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.

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I think the motive force of all our action is, after all, personal happiness.

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The General belonged to the learned type of military men who believed that liberal and humane views can be reconciled with their profession. But being...more

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Davout looked up and gazed intently at him. For some seconds they looked at one another, and that look saved Pierre. Apart from conditions of war and ...more

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In order to understand, observe, deduce, man must first be conscious of himself as alive.

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Man lives consciously for himself, but serves as an unconscious instrument for the achievement of historical, universally human goals.

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There are such repulsive faces in the world.

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We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.

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What is the cause of historical events? Power. What is power? Power is the sum total of wills transferred to one person. On what condition are the wil...more

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This history of culture will explain to us the motives, the conditions of life, and the thought of the writer or reformer.