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By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. Fro...  
Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completen...  
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Giv...  
Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good,...  
Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.  
For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doi...  
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.   Forgiveness
In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in ...  
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once ...  
It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the lates...  
It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wro...  
Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rath...  
Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity...  
No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that f...  
No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent...  
Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal w...  
Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalit...  
Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate,...  
Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the ...  
Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it ...  
Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining ...  
The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number o...  
The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social a...  
The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.  
The human condition is such that pain and effort are not just symptoms...  
The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in in...  
The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day afte...  
The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical la...  
The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true.   Dreams
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up th...  
The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.  
The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends ...  
There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.  
This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expe...  
To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority...  
To be sure, nothing is more important to the integrity of the universi...  
Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concret...  
Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, th...  
War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.  
We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the commo...  
What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlie...  
Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are t...  
Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political...