War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth a war, is much worse. When a people are used as mere human instruments for firing cannon or...
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John Stuart Mill
For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is...
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George Orwell
I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me. I think I have no senses. I believe that body, shape, extension, motion, location are functions. What is there then that...
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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies.
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Aristotle
The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest-Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure, and the absence...
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John Stuart Mill
More Quotes By Friedrich Nietzsche
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.
Amor Fati — “Love Your Fate”, which is in fact your life.
