"Uniforms ruin every character"

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“Half a lifetime is spent with the unspoken question: Will it happen will it not?”

“He knows that every piece of selfknowledge which one cannot keep to oneself makes one smaller and smaller, he knows that he who cannot keep silent his wishes to be recognized in the greatness of his selfknowledge which is no selfknowledge if it cannot be kept silent, and one becomes hypersensitive one feels betrayed because one wants to be recognized by people, one becomes ridiculous ambitious in inverse ratio to ones selfknowledge”

“What we call unfaithfuless: our attempt for once to get out from behind our own face, our desperate hope of eluding the definitive.”

“It is the secret that a man and a woman keep from each other that makes them a couple”

“...for no rational reason.”

“What hope have you know given up ?”

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— Andrew Carnegie

Business1835–1919

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"It is doubtful whether the translation “moral” is adequate anywhere in the Ethics where Spinoza rigorously exhibits his system. The opinion that he is one of the greatest opponents of moralism that ev…"

— Baruch Spinoza

Philosophy1632–1677

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"Moral relativism is an easy and sloppy way to deal with personhood."

— Daniel Alan Vallero

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— Theodore Roosevelt

Politics1858–1919

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