Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
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Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
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Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.
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No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
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No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
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The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand.
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