"A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own."

Shelley, Percy Bysshe on goodness   

"A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything."

Malcolm X on purpose
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"I stood among them, but not of them; in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts."

Byron, Lord on dissent
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"I'm for truth no matter who tells it. I'm for justice no matter who it's for or against."

Malcolm X on justice   

"Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes."

Thoreau, Henry David on distrust
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"Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it."

Keats, John on experience
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"The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend."

Byron, Lord on animals
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"Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life."

Byron, Lord on love
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"There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything."

Byron, Lord on skepticism   

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"Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions."

Einstein, Albert on opinions
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"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move."

Adams, Douglas on humankind
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"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be."

Adams, Douglas on
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"People will then often say, ‘But surely it’s better to remain an Agnostic just in case?’ This, to me, suggests such a level of silliness and muddle that I usually edge out of the conversation rather than get sucked into it. (If it turns out that I’ve been wrong all along, and there is in fact a god, and if it further turned out that this kind of legalistic, cross-your-fingers-behind-your-back, Clintonian hair-splitting impressed him, then I think I would choose not to worship him anyway.)"

Adams, Douglas on atheism
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"Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe."

Thoreau, Henry David on doubt
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"A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention."

Huxley, Aldous on ignorance
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"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."

King Jr. Martin Luther on ignorance
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"Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education."

Russell, Bertrand on ignorance
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"You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him."

Aikman, Leo on action
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"Mockery is often the result of a poverty of wit."

La Bruyere, Jean De on ridicule
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"An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind."

Gandhi, Mahatma on revenge
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"Keep thy smooth words and juggling homilies for those who know thee not."

Byron, Lord on hypocrisy
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"However, no two people see the external world in exactly the same way. To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is --in other words, not a thing, but a think."

Fitzgerald, Penelope on perception
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"The graveyards are full of indispensable men."

Gaulle, Charles De on humility
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"If you would have people speak well of you, then do not speak well of yourself."

Pascal, Blaise on humility
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"Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate."

Russell, Bertrand on capitalism   

"Who loves not women, wine and song remains a fool his whole life long."

Luther, Martin on fools and foolishness
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"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance."

Bok, Derek on ignorance
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"I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real sentences. But our innocence goes awfully deep, and our discreditable secret is that we don't know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we don't care that we don't."

Thomas, Dylan on innocence
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"Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact."

Russell, Bertrand on happiness
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"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly."

Buddha on present
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"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared."

Buddha on happiness
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"If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing."

Russell, Bertrand on fools and foolishness
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"Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires."

Russell, Bertrand on facts   

"An extra-terrestrial philosopher, who had watched a single youth up to the age of twenty-one and had never come across any other human being, might conclude that it is the nature of human beings to grow continually taller and wiser in an indefinite progress towards perfection; and this generalization would be just as well founded as the generalization which evolutionists base upon the previous history of this planet."

Russell, Bertrand on evolution   

"My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that Carpe Diem is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds -- for who can trust to tomorrow?"

Byron, Lord on age and aging   

"Your letter of excuses has arrived. I receive the letter but do not admit the excuses except in courtesy, as when a man treads on your toes and begs your pardon -- the pardon is granted, but the joint aches, especially if there is a corn upon it."

Byron, Lord on excuses   

"All farewells should be sudden, when forever."

Byron, Lord on farewells
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"No one but a fool would measure their satisfaction by what the world thinks of it."

Goldsmith, Oliver on fools and foolishness
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"A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes."

Frost, Robert on fools and foolishness
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"A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him."

Boileau, Nicholas on fools and foolishness
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