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The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things. Jean de la Bruyere
Beautiful Pleasure Criticizing Feel Beautiful Things Very Moved Being Us Things
A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in bettering his position. Jean de la Bruyere
Man People Master Masters His Ambitious May Useful Who Many Slave Position
A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought. Jean de la Bruyere
Man World Thought Must Seem He Wishes
The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored. Jean de la Bruyere
Wise Fear Society Bored Wise Person Person Often Being
The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation. Jean de la Bruyere
Death Passion Hatred Long Sick Sign Reconciliation Obstinate Surest Malady Person Lived Desire
Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity. Jean de la Bruyere
Men Crimes Weaknesses Vanity Than Blush Less
One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories. Jean de la Bruyere
Mind Second-Rate Mark Telling Always Stories
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates. Jean de la Bruyere
Happiness Life Grief Hates Absence Person Loved Loved One Compared
Every law is an infraction of liberty. Jeremy Bentham
Liberty Law Every
When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely - the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears - when you give your whole attention to it. Jiddu Krishnamurti
You Heart Mind Understanding Ears Nerves About Give Only Takes Attention Talk Surely Listens Being Place Your Whole
Organized murder is war, and though we demonstrate against a particular war, the nuclear, or any other kind of war, we have never demonstrated against war. Jiddu Krishnamurti
War Other Though Kind Never Particular Demonstrate Any Against Organized Nuclear
If one has fear, there can be no initiative in the creative sense of the word. To have initiative in this sense is to do something original - to do it spontaneously, naturally, without being guided, forced, controlled. It is to do something which you love to do. Jiddu Krishnamurti
Love You Creative Fear Word Sense Guided Something Spontaneously Forced Without Controlled Being Which Naturally Original Initiative
Can the mind see the truth of its own incapacity to know the unknown? Surely if I see very clearly that my mind cannot know the unknown, there is absolute quietness. Jiddu Krishnamurti
Truth Mind Own Unknown See Absolute Clearly Know Surely Very Quietness Cannot Incapacity
What good to me is the festive garment of freedom when I am in a slave's smock at home? Johann Georg Hamann
Good Home Freedom Me Am Festive Garment Slave
An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards. John Locke
Man Balance Every Way Excellent Like Metal Always Precious Upwards Villain
To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes. John Locke
Eyes Darkness Men Before Own Other Our Out Put Looked Them Notions Show
Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed. John Searle
Distinction Observation Observed Between Concerned Subjectivity Where Conscious Thing
Where questions of style and exposition are concerned I try to follow a simple maxim: if you can't say it clearly you don't understand it yourself. John Searle
You Yourself Simple Try Style Say Follow Clearly Concerned Understand Questions Maxim Where Exposition
The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people. John Stuart Mill
People Liberty Other Must Individual He Thus Make Himself Limited Far Nuisance
No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is. John Stuart Mill
Word Wife Sense Same Full Slave
Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends. John Stuart Mill
Freedom Pain Pleasure Only Freedom From Ends Things Desirable
It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. John Stuart Mill
Day Technology Human Being Made Inventions Questionable Any Human Being Toil Mechanical
The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind. John Stuart Mill
World Power Mediocrity General Tendency Throughout Render Ascendant Mankind Among Things
All action is for the sake of some end; and rules of action, it seems natural to suppose, must take their whole character and color from the end to which they are subservient. John Stuart Mill
Character Natural Action Rules Must Some Seems Color Take Suppose Sake End Subservient Which Whole
All desirable things... are desirable either for the pleasure inherent in themselves, or as a means to the promotion of pleasure and the prevention of pain. John Stuart Mill
Pain Pleasure Promotion Prevention Either Themselves Means Inherent Things Desirable
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavouring to stifle is a false opinion; and even if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still. John Stuart Mill
Evil Would Would-Be Never Sure Opinion Stifle Stifling Still Were False Even
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