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The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.

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When in doubt, do it.

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To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.

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The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.

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The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.

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I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimately my master.

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I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.

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To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences.

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

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Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Judge

Born: March 8th, 1841

Died: March 6th, 1935

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