Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.
The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.
Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another.
In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.
A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.
The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.
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