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recalled how his visitor stepped from her car and exclaimed

for him seems to have been the expected attack on London. As

To make of the truth a goddess amounts to turning the mere notion of something, namely the concept of the essence of truth, into a personality.

let himself be drawn hither by the coercion of the phenomena themselves

All future interpretation of Greek metaphysics, including Nietzsche's, is Christian.

The fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as a picture.

Will we be extremists for hate or will we be extremists for love? Will we be extremists for the preservation of injustice ? or will we be extremists for the cause of justice?

the question is not whether we will be extremist, but what kind of extremists we will be. Will we be extremists for hate, or will we be extremists for love? Will we be extremists for the preservation of injustice, or will we be extremists for the cause of justice?

Non-violence is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation.

a man's life was sacred only if we agreed with his views.

You're the one thought psychopaths were so interesting, but they're kinda tiresome after a while, don't you think?

Governments had socialized the liabilities of the core institutions of the global financial system.

or syncretism which derived from some fortuitous

love was never a sin. Not loving, now that was the very worst kind of sin

Every...woman, the old lady said, loves a ...rogue.

Hugo could cheerfully have died of mortification - if such a mass of contradictions had been possible.

If only the devil were feminine - perhaps he (she) was; no one had ever seemed to think of that - he would readily believe that her pseudonym was Daisy Morrison.

Mr. Sherlock Holmes was leaning back in his chair after his whimsical protest, and was unfolding his morning paper in a leisurely fashion

Of late I have been tempted to look into the problems furnished by nature rather than those more superficial ones tor which our artificial state of society is responsible.

You have degraded what should have been a course of lectures into a series of tales.

Died August 4th, 1860.

when this original intellectual deduction is confirmed point by point by quite a number of independent incidents, then the subjective becomes objective and

We were fairly accustomed to receive weird telegrams at Baker Street

I endeavoured to cheer and amuse her by reminiscences of my adventures in Afghanistan; but, to tell the truth, I was myself so excited at our situation, and so curious as to our destination, that my stories were slightly involved. To this day she declares that I told her one moving anecdote as to how a musket looked into my tent at the dead of night, and how I fired a double-barrelled tiger cub at it.