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The object of studying philosophy is to know one's own mind, not other peoples.

William Ralph Inge

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The great discovery of the nineteenth century, that we are of one blood with the lower animals, has created new ethical obligations which have not yet penetrated the public conscience. The clerical profession has been lamentably remiss in preaching this obvious duty.
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A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.
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They who will live for others shall have great troubles, but they shall seem to them small. Those who will live for themselves shall have small troubles, but they shall seem to them great.
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The soul is dyed by the color of its leisure hours.
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Lutheranism is essentially German... It worships a God who is neither just nor merciful.
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There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise? Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggles. 'You forget,' said the Devil, with a chuckle, 'that I have been evolving too.
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No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.
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A monarch frequently represents his subjects better that an elected assembly and if he is a good judge of character he is likely to have more capable and loyal advisers.
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The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.
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Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.
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There are no rewards or punishments - only consequences.
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Hatred toward any human being cannot exist in the same heart as love to God.
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A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings.
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Originality is undetected plagiarism.
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The vulgar mind always mistakes the exceptional for the important.
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The game of life is worth playing, but the struggle is the prize.
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The happy people are those who are producing something.
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The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions, and would soon bring to an end all the static Utopias and the farmyard civilization of the Fabians.
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Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.
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Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true.
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