“What has always made the state a hell on earth has been precisely that man has tried to make it heaven.”
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“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
― Man and Superman
― Man and Superman
“A man must have a good deal of vanity who believes, and a good deal of boldness who affirms, that all the doctrines he holds are true, and all he rejects are false.”
― A Benjamin Franklin Reader: The Essential Writings of a Colonial Sage
― A Benjamin Franklin Reader: The Essential Writings of a Colonial Sage
“A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.”
― Essays and Aphorisms
― Essays and Aphorisms
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