“So long as an opinion is strongly rooted in the feelings, it gains rather than loses in stability by having a preponderating weight of argument against it.”

― John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women

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“Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from faith.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“our survival may depend upon our talking to one another.”

― Dan Simmons, Hyperion

“Our people are good people; our people are kind people. Pray God some day kind people won’t all be poor.”

― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“Mother used to say that however miserable one is, there's always something to be thankful for.”

― Albert Camus, The Stranger

“But neither do these come within the compass of our mental powers; and it was the duty of philosophy to destroy the illusions which had their origin in misconceptions, whatever darling hopes and valued expectations may be ruined by its explanations.”

― Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

“If we avail ourselves for a moment longer of the right to elaborate from the dream interpretation such far-reaching psychological speculations, we are in duty bound to demonstrate that we are thereby bringing the dream into a relationship which...”

― Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams

“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

“Immediate necessity makes many things convenient, which if continued would grow into oppressions. Expedience and right are different things.”

― Thomas Paine, Common Sense

“Poetry, therefore, is a more philosophical and a higher thing than history: for poetry tends to express the universal, history the particular.”

― Aristotle, Poetics

“Things that happen are of no importance . . . But from everything that happens, there is a lesson to be learned.”

― John Steinbeck, Tortilla Flat

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