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Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence. Henri Frederic Amiel
Truth Silence Truth Is Only Outraged Equally Falsehood May Violated
Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another. Immanuel Kant
Guidance Intelligence Immaturity Another Without Incapacity Use
We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact. Jean-Paul Sartre
Responsible Fact Know Want
When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love. Jiddu Krishnamurti
Love Myself You Understanding Out Understand
All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated for various professions within a system which is based on exploitation and acquisitive fear. Jiddu Krishnamurti
Education Fight Fear Exploitation Pleasant Though System Ourselves Security Phrases Seek Various Environment Over Over It Within Educated Cover Been Trained Personal Gain Which Us Based Professions
Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip. John Locke
Finance Cause Stumble Shoes Too Our Trip Small Like Pinch Gall Us Large Incomes
Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand. Karl Marx
Religion Mind Deal Understand Occurrence Impotence Human Cannot Human Mind
The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion. Karl Marx
Happiness Religion People First Abolition Requisite
It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood. Karl Popper
You Speak Impossible Way Misunderstood Cannot Such A Way
When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder. Lao Tzu
Truth Expediency Lost Beginning Virtue Benevolence Shadow Mere Conduct Expedience Disorder Appears Right Right Conduct
He who is contented is rich. Lao Tzu
Rich He Contented Who
If taxation without consent is robbery, the United States government has never had, has not now, and is never likely to have, a single honest dollar in its treasury. If taxation without consent is not robbery, then any band of robbers have only to declare themselves a government, and all their robberies are legalized. Lysander Spooner
Government Single Band States Only Never Had Robbery Likely Without Dollar Any Declare Taxation Themselves Then Now United United States United States Government Treasury Consent Honest
A traitor is a betrayer - one who practices injury, while professing friendship. Benedict Arnold was a traitor, solely because, while professing friendship for the American cause, he attempted to injure it. An open enemy, however criminal in other respects, is no traitor. Lysander Spooner
Friendship Enemy Cause Other Criminal Solely Respects Open Attempted He Arnold Because Practices However American Traitor While Who Professing Injure Injury
Truth uttered before its time is always dangerous. Mencius
Truth Time Dangerous Before Always Uttered
If you are far from the enemy, make him believe you are near. Sun Tzu
You Enemy Believe Make Him Far Near
True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united. Wilhelm von Humboldt
Fitness Mind True Exercise Body Activity United Ever Enjoyment Two
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause. William James
Savage Good Man Cause Good Man Bad Some Bad One Between Ready Difference Choice
It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway. Albert Camus
Love You Random Fall Despair Alibi Only Feel Provide Going Anyway Necessary
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 there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor. Albert Camus
Thought Hopeless Fall Own Back Top Punishment Futile Dreadful Would Some More Had Weight Rock Condemned Labor Mountain Than Gods Stone Rolling Whence Reason
Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object. Albert Camus
Beautiful Truth Light Every On The Contrary Object Like Blinds Falsehood Contrary Enhances Twilight
It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought. Aristotle
Thankful Grateful Thought Be Grateful Before Those Superficial Something More Only Developing Also Powers May Just Us Should Views Who Agree Expressed Whose
Wit is educated insolence. Aristotle
Insolence Wit Educated
Education is the best provision for old age. Aristotle
Education Best Age Old Old Age Provision
Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point. Arthur Schopenhauer
Nature Suffering Intelligence Degree Pain Increased Only Point Highest Highest Degree Supreme Capacity Shows Growth
It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance. Baruch Spinoza
Man Reality Become Imagination Vain Pleasing Easily He Come Himself Pass Proud May Universal Nuisance Imagine
I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world. Bertrand Russell
Religion Enemy World Progress Christian Say Churches Has-Been Moral Deliberately Principal Still Been Quite Organized Christian Religion
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