Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors. Counsels and Maxims
There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after. The Hobbit
Meditation on any theme, if positive and honest, inevitably separates him who does the meditating from the opinion prevailing around him, from that which … can be called “public” or “popular” opinion. What is Philosophy?
The ruling power within, when it is in its natural state, is so related to outer circumstances that it easily changes to accord with what can be done and what is given it to do. Book IV
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