A man is such a strange animal: fear and desire are expressed by the same organ. For the former, he loses control of the organ and it lets out urine; for the latter, he loses control of the organ and it fills with blood.
“Europe was a heap of swords piled as delicately as jackstraws; one could not be pulled out without moving the others. Under”
― The Guns of August
― The Guns of August
“Truth, in the great practical concerns of life, is so much a question of the reconciling and combining of opposites, that very few have minds sufficiently capacious and impartial to make the adjustment with an approach to correctness, and it has to be made by the rough process of a struggle between combatants fighting under hostile banners.”
― On Liberty
― On Liberty
“What sort of philosophy one chooses depends…on what sort of man one is;”
― Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers
― Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers
“Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing. It”
― On Liberty
― On Liberty
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