"It must be admitted that the conception of virtue cannot be separated from the conception of happiness-producing conduct."

-- Herbert Spencer

“In the Gulf War, U.S. Marine Corps wheeled vehicles were killing Iraqi T-72 tanks.”
“Mankind occurs as male or female, as something or nothing. Woman has no share in ontological reality, no relation to the thing-in-itself, which, in the deepest interpretation, is the absolute, is God. Man in his highest form, the genius, has such a relation, and for him the absolute is either the conception of the highest worth of existence, in which case he is a philosopher; or it is the wonderful fairyland of dreams, the kingdom of absolute beauty, and then he is an artist.”

Source : "Sex & Character".
“Today we have 1 billion users on the Net. By 2010 we will have maybe 2 billion.”
“He who obeys God's laws finds him a father. He who disobeys them, finds him a judge.”
“When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.”
“Generally it is our failures that civilize us. Triumph confirms us in our habits.”

Source : Clive James (2013). “The Complete Unreliable Memoirs”, p.54, Pan Macmillan
“If a face like Ingrid Bergman's looks at you as though you're adorable, everybody does. You don't have to act very much.”
“One can't live without fear, it's a question of what is your attitude towards fear? I'm afraid of a sordid death. I'm afraid that I will die in an ugly or squalid way, and cancer can be very vigorous in that respect.”

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