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Whilst the rights of all as persons are equal, in virtue of their access to reason, their rights in property are very unequal.

Democracy is better for us, because the religious sentiment of the present time accords better with it

PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

The economic theory of laissez-faire, based upon belief in beneficent natural laws which brought about harmony of personal profit and social benefit, was readily fused with the doctrine of natural rights

On the whole, then, we must conclude that no philosophy of ethics is possible in the old-fashioned absolute sense of the term.

You must pay at last your own debt. If you are wise you will dread a prosperity which only loads you with more. Benefit is the end of nature.

Speak what you think now in hard words and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day

Leisure, is Time for doing something useful; this Leisure the diligent Man will obtain, but the lazy Man never; so that, as Poor Richard says, a Life of Leisure and a Life of Laziness are two Things.

It is, of course, not enough that a public official should be honest. No amount of honesty will avail if he is not also brave and wise.

Let us not pretend to doubt in philosophy what we do not doubt in our hearts.

Every thing, according to him, is luxury which exceeds what is absolutely necessary for the support of human nature, so that there is a vice even in the use of a clean shirt, or of a convenient habitation.

OF SPURIOUS CAPITAL AND OF PROFITS OFTEN MISTAKEN FOR INTEREST.

The contention seems to be sound, and is commonly accepted; but it has commonly been overlooked that the argument involves the ulterior conclusion that all land values and land productivity, including the "original and indestructible powers of the soil," are a function of the "state of the industrial art." It is only within the given technological situation, the current scheme of ways and means, that any parcel of land has such productive powers as it has. It is, in other words, useful only because, and in so far, and in such manner, as men have learned to make use of it. This is what brings it into the category of "land," economically speaking.

for in vain would be this power of vision if it taught man nothing

She is to virtue what light is to color

"such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks,—and all it wants,—is the liberty of appearing"

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The patient acquired his name from the fright¬ening story of a rat torture that he had heard from a captain whilehe was doing his military service

Lacan is the last person who would explicitly recommendbeing a slave to another master: “It is not a question of imitating him.In order to rediscover the effect of Freud’s speech, it is not to itsterms that we shall recourse, but to the principles that govern it.