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Our civilization has decided, and very justly decided, that determining the guilt or innocence of men is a thing too important to be trusted to trained men.... When it wants a library catalogued, or the solar system discovered, or any trifle of that kind, it uses up its specialists. But when it wishes anything done which is really serious, it collects twelve of the ordinary men standing round.

G.K. Chesterton

Tremendous Trifles

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Chesterton, G.K. "The Twelve Men." In Defense of Sanity: The Best Essays of G.K. Chesterton. Ignatius Press, 2011. Originally published by Methuen, 1909.

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Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way and never again.

Hermann Hesse

Demian

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Hesse, Herman. Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend [Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth]. Fischer Verlag, 1919.

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Hesse, Herman. Demian, translated by Damion Searls. Penguin Classics, 2013.

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Give a man the secure possession of bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him nine years lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.

Arthur Young

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Young, Arthur. Journal entry. 30 July 1787.

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Give me a spirit that on this life's rough sea
Loves t' have his sails filled with a lusty wind,
Even till his sail-yards tremble, his masts crack,
And his rapt ship run on her side so low
That she drinks water, and her keel plows air.

George Chapman

The Conspiracy of Charles, Duke of Byron

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Chapman, George. "The Conspiracy of Charles Duke of Byron." Children of the Chapel, 1608, Blackfriars Theatre, London, England, UK, act 3, sc. 3.

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Chapman, George. "The Conspiracy of Charles Duke of Byron." The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles, Duke of Byron. Manchester University Press, 1988, act 3, sc. 3.

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Those who travel heedlessly from place to place, observing only their distance from each other and attending only to their accommodation at the inn at night, set out fools, and will certainly return so.

Lord Chesterfield

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Stanhope, Philip Dormer. Letter to his son. 30 Oct. 1747.

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The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death. It's indifference.

Elie Wiesel

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Wiesel, Elie. Quoted in "One Must Not Forget." Interviewed by Alvin P. Sanoff. US News & World Report, 27 Oct. 1986.

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I cannot pretend I am without fear. But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved; I have been given much and I have given something in return; I have read and traveled and thought and written. I have had an intercourse with the world, the special intercourse of writers and readers. Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure.

Oliver Sacks

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Sacks, Oliver. "My Own Life." The New York Times, 19 Feb. 2015.

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The power of the press is very great, but not so great as the power of suppress.

Alfred Harmsworth

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Harmsworth, Alfred. Daily Mail. c. 1918.

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Stone walls do not a prison make,
Nor iron bars a cage;
Minds innocent and quiet take
That for an hermitage.
If I have freedom in my love,
And in my soul am free;
Angels alone, that soar above,
Enjoy such liberty.

Richard Lovelace

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To Althea, From Prison

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Lovelace, Richard. "To Althea, from Prison." Lucasta. London: William Hazlitt, 1649, I. 25.

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Egypt's might is tumbled down
Down a-down the deeps of thought;
Greece is fallen and Troy town,
Glorious Rome hath lost her crown,
Venice' pride is nought.
But the dreams their children dreamed
Fleeting, unsubstantial, vain
Shadowy as the shadows seemed
Airy nothing, as they deemed,
These remain.

Mary Coleridge

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Egypt's Might is Tumbled Down

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Coleridge, Mary. "Egypt's Might is Tumbled Down." Poems. London: Elkin Mathews, 1908, I. 1.

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You have riches and freedom here but I feel no sense of faith or direction. You have so many computers, why don't you use them in the search for love?

Lech Walesa

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Walesa, Lech. Quoted in Daily Telegraph. 14 Dec. 1988.

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Whoever has really seen Russia will find himself content to live anywhere else. It is always good to know that a society exists where no happiness is possible because, by a law of nature, man cannot be happy unless he is free.

Astolphe de Custine

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La Russie en 1839

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Marquis de Custine. La Russie en 1839 [Russia in 1839]. Vol. 4, Bruxelles: Societe Belge de Librarie, 1843.

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It is only that which cannot be expressed otherwise that is worth expressing in music.

Frederick Delius

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Delius. "At the Cross-Roads." The Sackbut, Sept. 1920.

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All genuine political theories presuppose man to be evil, i. E., by no means an unproblematic but a dangerous and dynamic being.

Carl Schmitt

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The Concept of the Political

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Schmitt, Carl. Der Begriff des Politischen [The Concept of the Political]. Duncker & Humblot, 1932, sect. 7.

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Schmitt, Carl. The Concept of the Political, translated by George Schwab. University of Chicago Press, 2007, sect. 7.

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It is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way.

Havelock Ellis

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Ellis, Havelock. The Dance of Life. Houghton, Mifflin Company, 1923, ch. 3.

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At thirty, Man suspects himself a fool;
Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan;
At fifty chides his infamous delay,
Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve;
In all the magnanimity of thought
Resolves; and re-resolves; then dies the same.

Edward Young

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Young, Edward. The Complaint: or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality. London: R. Dodsley, 1742, Night 1, I. 417.

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Young, Edward. Edward Young: Night Thoughts, edited by Stephen Cornford. Cambridge University Press, 2008, Night 1, I. 417.

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People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.

George Bernard Shaw

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Shaw, George Bernard. "The Philanderer." Plays Unpleasant. London: Grant Richards, 1898, act 2.

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Shaw, George Bernard. "Mrs. Warren's Profession." Plays Unpleasant. Penguin Classics, 2001, act 2.

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The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.

Henri Bergson

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Bergson, Henri. L'Évolution créatrice [Creative Evolution]. 1907.

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Bergson, Henri. Creative Evolution. Dover Publications, 1998.

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Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

Max Frisch

Homo Faber

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Frisch, Max. Homo faber. Ein Bericht. [Homo faber. A Report.] Abelard-Schuman, 1957.

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I will not pretend I wasn't petrified. I was. But mixed in with the awful fear was a glorious feeling of excitement. Most of the really exciting things we do in our lives scare us to death. They wouldn't be exciting if they didn't.