To have talent, you must be convinced that you possess it.
Untie, liberate, and do not be afraid. He who is free is disarmed.
Certainly thinking is pleasant, but the pleasure of thinking must be subordinated to the art of making decisions.
That principle is, that the sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number, is self-protection. That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others.
The usefulness of an opinion is itself matter of opinion.
Wouldn't a sailor laugh at you if you told him that the whole crossing depends on the first turn of the helm?
A philosophy should be portable.
We do not suffer from things to which we are accustomed.
There are dreams that are pure poems.
Let us atone for the fault with speed: the hearts of good men admit of atonement.
They muddy the water, to make it seem deep.
When we are not intelligible, we are not intelligent.
All flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
As one might say of me that I have only made here a collection of other people's flowers, having provided nothing of my own but the cord to bind them together.
Let us consider the way in which we spend our lives.
The separation of history from geography rests upon the separation of time from space.
The world is independent of my will.
True and False are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither Truth nor Falsehood.
Essence is expressed in grammar.
What forbids me from telling the truth with a laugh?
And how great soever a Man's Talents may be, unless they be cultivated, they are but half-talents.
Nothing is evil which is according to nature.
Freedom begins where it ends ignorance.
As we are, so we do; and as we do, so is it done to us; we are the builders of our fortunes.
The waking have one common world, but the sleeping turn aside each into a world of his own.
Life is more beautiful than caution.
Science does not think and cannot think; indeed, that is what constitutes its chance, that which secures its own way of proceeding.
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
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