“We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side one which we preach but do not practise, and another which we practise but seldom preach.”

― Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays

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“Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Horrible my iniquities had been; But Infinite Goodness hath such ample arms, That it receives whatever turns to it.”

― Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy

“The free man, who lives among the ignorant, strives, as far as he can, to avoid receiving favours from them.”

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

“she has travelled for four weeks with the untroubled unhaste of a change of season.”

― William Faulkner, Light in August

“Feelings are of four sorts: Sensations, Thoughts, Emotions, and Volitions. What are called Perceptions are merely a particular case of Belief, and Belief is a kind of thought. Actions are merely volitions followed by an effect.”

― John Stuart Mill, A System Of Logic

“Then I feel, Harry, that I have given away my whole soul to some one who treats it as if it were a flower to put in his coat, a bit of decoration to charm his vanity, an ornament for a summer's day.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells the truth.”

― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

“Violence . . . is the last refuge of the incompetent.”

― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

“I am crying for more and more disasters, for bigger calamities, for grander failures. I want the whole world to be out of whack, I want everyone to scratch himself to death.”

― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

“All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Compensation

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