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The consequences to you, not someone’s conception of rights, must always be the deciding standard of your actions.
Harry Browne • How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World
Good work is not done by ‘humble’ men.
G. H. Hardy • A Mathematician's Apology (Canto Classics)
a realistic critic quoted German authorities to prove that Hamlet had a particular psycho-pathological abnormality, which is admittedly nowhere mentioned in the play. The critic was bewitched; he was thinking of Hamlet as a real man, with a background behind him three dimensions deep–which does not exist in a looking-glass.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic."
Oscar Wilde • The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mon cher enfant, aucune femme n’est géniale. Les femmes sont un sexe décoratif. Elles n’ont jamais rien à dire, mais elles le disent d’une façon charmante. Les femmes représentent le triomphe de la matière sur l’intelligence, de même que les hommes représentent le triomphe de l’intelligence sur les mœurs.
Oscar Wilde • Portrait de Dorian Gray, Le
Aristocracies are infinitely more expert in the science of legislation than democracies ever can be. They are possessed of a self-control which protects them from the errors of temporary excitement, and they form lasting designs which they mature with the assistance of favorable opportunities. Aristocratic government proceeds with the dexterity of
... See moreAlexis de Tocqueville • Democracy in America, Volume I and II (Optimized for Kindle)
evil the natural way. A man is not a good man to me because he will feed me if I should be starving, or warm me if I should be freezing, or pull me out of a ditch if I should ever fall into one. I can find you a Newfoundland dog that will do as much. Philanthropy is not love for one's fellow-man in the broadest sense. Howard was no doubt an exceedi
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As the saying goes, “In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is.”*
Scott Young • Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career
If Darwin had never abstracted from his concrete observations of sparrows, he would never have found an abstract, a general principle of evolution across different species, and he would never have been able to see how evolution works in other species as well. Abstraction is also not for theoretical-academic processes of insight only. We need to abs
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