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"If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons." 4.428571428571429 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Many things--such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly--are done worst when we try hardest to do them." 4.555555555555555 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing." 4.083333333333333 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Our passions are not too strong, they are too weak. We are far too easily pleased." 4.916666666666667 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief." 5 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Reasoning is never, like poetry, judged from the outside at all." 5 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war. Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest." 4.666666666666667 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"The more often a man feels without acting, the less he'll be able to act. And in the long run, the less he'll be able to feel." 4.833333333333333 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"The proper rewards are not simply tacked on to the activity for which they are given, but are the activity itself in consummation." 4 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"There are no variations except for those who know a norm, and no subtleties for those who have not grasped the obvious." 4.833333333333333 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"We all wish to be judged by our peers, by the men 'after our own heart.' Only they really know our mind and only they judge it by standards we fully acknowledge. Theirs is the praise we really covet and the blame we really dread. The little pockets of early Chrstians survived because they cared exclusively for the love of 'the bretheren' and stopped their ears to the opinion of the Pagan society around them. But a circle of criminals, cranks, or perverts survives in just the same way; by becoming deaf to the opinion of the outer world, by discounting it as the chatter of outsiders who 'don't understand,' of the 'conventional,' the 'bourgeois,' the 'Establishment,' of prigs, prudes, and humbugs." 4 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Who can endure a doctrine which would allow only dentists to say whether our teeth were aching, only cobblers to say whether our shoes hurt us, and only governments to tell us whether we were being well governed?" 4.25 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"You play the hand you're dealt. I think the game's worthwhile." 3.8947368421052633 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote


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