“At the present time, Hitler is an outcome of Rousseau; Roosevelt and Churchill, of Locke.”

― Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy

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“Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.”

― Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy

“our social personality is created by the thoughts of other people.”

― Marcel Proust, Swann's Way

“CONSERVATIVE, n. A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others. ”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

“As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Our cause is never more in danger, than when a human, no longer desiring, but intending, to do our Enemy's will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys.”

― C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

“But you're able to hear, I reckon; leastways, your ears is big enough.”

― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

“There be other simple ideas which convey themselves into the mind by all the ways of sensation and reflection, viz. PLEASURE or DELIGHT, and its opposite, PAIN, or UNEASINESS; POWER; EXISTENCE; UNITY mix with almost all our other Ideas.”

― John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

“Your father, Jo. He never loses patience, never doubts or complains, but always hopes, and works and waits so cheerfully that one is ashamed to do otherwise before him.”

― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“I couldn't forgive him or like him but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. It was all very careless and confused.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“And where two raging fires meet together, they do consume the thing that feeds their fury.”

― William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew

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