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One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many. "Good" is no longer good when one's neighbor mouths it. And how should there be a "common good"! The term contradicts itself: whatever can be common always has little value. In the end it must be as it is and always has been: great things remain for the great, abysses for the profound, nuances and shudders for the refined, and, in brief, all that is rare for the rare. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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I try to avoid having thoughts. They lead to other thoughts, and—if you're not careful—those lead to actions. Actions make you tired. I have this on rather good authority from someone who once read it in a book. ↗

— Brandon Sanderson

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What we do in every other area of our lives (other than religion), is, rather than respect somebody's beliefs, we evaluate their reasons. ↗

— Sam Harris

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In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the weak. That was all. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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I do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern without any superhuman authority behind it. ↗

— Albert Einstein

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What is law? Is it what is on the books, or what is actually enacted and obeyed in a society? Or is law what must be enacted and obeyed, whether or not it is on the books, if things are to go right? ↗

— Bernhard Schlink

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We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one which we preach, but do not practice, and another which we practice, but seldom preach. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

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Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. Once it does, it becomes the kind of thing that makes you grab your wife around the waist and dance a jig. (150) ↗

— Malcolm Gladwell

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What one generation finds ridiculous, the next accepts; and the third shudders when it looks back on what the first did. ↗

— Peter Singer

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