“Human beings may be miserable specimens, in the main, but we can learn, and, through learning, become decent people.”

― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

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“Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool, and draw shame and misery upon a man's self?”

― John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

“What the eye doesn't see the heart doesn't grieve for”

― W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil

“We are puppets dancing on the strings of those who came before us, and one day our own children will take up our strings and dance on in our steads.”

― George R. R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“Power of the body decides everything in the end, and only Might is Right.”

― T. H. White, The Once and Future King

“Men's evil manners live in brass: their virtues we write in water.”

― William Shakespeare, Henry VIII

“As understanding deepens, the further removed it becomes from knowledge.”

― Carl Jung, The Undiscovered Self

“With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word 'intellectual,' of course, became the swear word it deserved to be.”

― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.”

― Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room

“Philosophy is the microscope of the thought.”

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“I have not wanted syllables where actions have spoken so plainly.”

― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

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