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Great words from great minds
- “Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.” – Lao-Tzu
- “Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.” – Kahlil Gibran
- “The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.” – Ruth Benedict
- “Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue it likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.” – Randolph Bourne
- “The few have appealed to reason, to honor, to law, to freedom, to the known, and to happiness here in this world. The many have appealed to prejudice, to fear, to miracle, to slavery, to the unknown, and to misery hereafter. The few have said ‘Think!’ The many have said ‘Believe!’ ” – Robert G. Ingersoll
- “It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.” – Jeseph Joubert
- “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” – Friederich Nietzsche
- “Man ... always remains attached to the past: however far and fast he runs, the chain runs with him.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
- “All great truths begin as blasphemies.” – George Bernard Shaw
- “You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.” – Aldous Huxley
- “Nature does not loathe virtue: it is unaware of its existence” – Fran�oise Mallet-Joris
- “Bene qui latuit, bene vixit” [One who has lived well has lived unnoticed] – Ovid
- “Omnes vulnerant, ultima necat” [All the hours wound, and the last one kills] – Latin proverb
- “You will die but the carbon will not...” – Jacob Bronowski
- “A society committed to the search for truth must give protection to, and set a high value upon, the independent and original mind, however angular, however rasping, however socially unpleasant it may be; for it is upon such minds, in large measure, that the effective search for truth depends.” – Caryl P. Haskins
- “Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want.” – John Fowles
- “There was a time when religion ruled the world. It is known as The Dark Ages.” – Ruth Hurmence Green
- “God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos ...” – H. L. Mencken
- “True love does not demand fidelity...” – Alice-Christian
- “Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.” – Anatole France
- “If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?” – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- “And now I see the face of god, and I raise this god over the earth, this god whom men have sought since men came into being, this god who will grant them joy and peace and pride. This god, this one word: ‘I.’ ” – Ayn Rand
- “In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer.” – Albert Camus
- “Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.” – Joseph Conrad
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