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“Love, I find is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.”

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"People are even more reluctant to admit that man explains nothing, than they were to admit that God explains nothing."

— Ernest Gellner

Philosophy1925–1995

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"Man, when he is in health and order of soul and body, is Mount Olympus, and in him, so long as he confesses that he is nothing in himself, are sensibly apparent the powers and majesties, beauties and …"

— Coventry Patmore

Literature1823–1896

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"To understand political power aright, and derive from it its original, we must consider what estate all men are naturally in, and that is, a state of perfect freedom to order their actions, and dispos…"

— John Locke

Philosophy1943–2006

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"Of these denials of European tradition one is especially important: that is the refutation of the demand that the political and social order and the authority set up under it have to justify themselve…"

— Peter Drucker

Philosophy1909–2005

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