The more I detest men individually the more ardent
becomes my love for humanity.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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The more I detest men individually the more ardent
becomes my love for humanity.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Creative activity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
~ Arthur Koestler
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The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.
~ Arthur Koestler
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The principal function of anti-Americanism has always been, and still is, to discredit liberalism by discrediting its supreme incarnation. To travesty the United States as a repressive, unjust, racist—almost fascist—society was a way of proclaiming: look what happens when liberalism is implemented!
~ Jean-François Revel
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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
~ Toni Morrison
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It is highly significant, and indeed almost a rule, that moral courage has its source in identification through one’s own sensitivity with the suffering of one’s fellow human beings.
~ Rollo May
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Since the value of freedom rests on the opportunities it provides for unforeseen and unpredictable actions, we will rarely know what we lose through a particular restriction of freedom.
~ Friedrich Hayek
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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If an individual’s morals are situational, that individual is without morals. If a nation’s laws are situational, that nation has no laws, and soon isn’t a nation.
~ William Gibson
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If our titles recall the known myths of antiquity, we have used them again because they are the eternal symbols upon which we must fall back to express basic psychological ideas.
~ Mark Rothko
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