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Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion. ↗

— William Godwin

#artillery #civil #civil liberty #consequence #follows

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#attaches #curse #development #her #inaction

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#bring #end #happy #happy man #his

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#else #happens #knows #man #neither

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#i #knew #more #myself #never

Age merely shows what children we remain. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#children #merely #remain #shows

If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#down #enough #guesses #him #i

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#himself #master #shows

When I was doing ensemble theater and comedy work, I felt I had some talents. But when I started doing my shows in Berkeley and found that I could be funny on my own, I was shocked. ↗

— Whoopi Goldberg

#comedy #could #doing #ensemble #felt

If you're going to figure something out, study ethics. You can ask What's the answer? What's Right and Wrong? What I learned is that nobody knows the answer and there is no Right and Wrong. So I'm incapable of becoming a fundamentalist because there are no absolutes, there's always a what if. ↗

— Duff Goldman

#answer #ask #because #becoming #ethics