Popularity: 6
Vote:   | A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | Human improvement is from within outward. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty. |
Popularity: -5
Vote: | No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | Our human laws are more or less imperfect copies of the external laws as we see them. |
Popularity: -2
Vote: | Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve. |
Popularity: 5
Vote: | Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; but a belief is always sensitive. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side. |
Popularity: 5
Vote: | The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue. |
Popularity: -4
Vote: | The essence of greatness is neglect of the self. |
Popularity: -3
Vote: | The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness. |
Popularity: 7
Vote: | The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | We enter the world alone, we leave the world alone. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one. |