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All central beliefs on human matters spring from a personal predicament.


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Those who have ever valued liberty for its own sake believed that to be free to choose, and not to be chosen for, is an inalienable ingredient in what makes human beings human.

Those who have ever valued liberty for its own sake believed that to be free to choose, and not to be chosen for, is an inalienable ingredient in what makes human beings human.



Freedom for the wolves has often meant death to the sheep.

Freedom for the wolves has often meant death to the sheep.



The first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds.

The first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds.



Liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or human happiness or a quiet conscience.

Liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or human happiness or a quiet conscience.



True knowledge is knowledge of why things are as they are, and not merely what they are.

True knowledge is knowledge of why things are as they are, and not merely what they are.



To understand is to perceive patterns.

To understand is to perceive patterns.



The trouble with academics and commentators is that they care more about whether ideas are interesting than whether they are true.

The trouble with academics and commentators is that they care more about whether ideas are interesting than whether they are true.



Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to be going, whether they wish to go there, and if so, why, and if not, why not.

Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to be going, whether they wish to go there, and if so, why, and if not, why not.



Out of the crooked timber of humanity, nothing completely straight was ever made

Out of the crooked timber of humanity, nothing completely straight was ever made



Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated.

Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated.





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Irony and hip ennui are extremely authoritarian.

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The present is all the ready money Fate can give.

The present is all the ready money Fate can give.



What ye have been ye still shall be, When we are dust the dust among, O yellow flowers!

What ye have been ye still shall be, When we are dust the dust among, O yellow flowers!



Progress comes from the intelligent use of experience.

Progress comes from the intelligent use of experience.



Yet there it was not love. It was a little fever of admiration; but it might, probably must, end in love with some

Yet there it was not love. It was a little fever of admiration; but it might, probably must, end in love with some



If I have accomplished anything in life it is because I have been willing to work hard.

If I have accomplished anything in life it is because I have been willing to work hard.



I feel that the social revolution of the sixties is like a revolving door that came our way, and then left. It's back again.

I feel that the social revolution of the sixties is like a revolving door that came our way, and then left. It's back again.



Donald Trump descends in a very powerful way from longstanding tenets of American conservatism, they're just not the movement conservatism we associate with Reagan.

Donald Trump descends in a very powerful way from longstanding tenets of American conservatism, they're just not the movement conservatism we associate with Reagan.



Enthusiasm is the key not only to the achievement of great things but to the accomplishment of any thing that is worthwhile.

Enthusiasm is the key not only to the achievement of great things but to the accomplishment of any thing that is worthwhile.




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