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People who say they don8t care what people thin' are usually desperate to have people thin' they
don8t care what people thin'.
/uthorE ;eorge 0arlin
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2ever e!plain : your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
/uthorE 1lbert Bubbard
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2ature never said to meE 9o not be poor. *till less did she sayE 4e rich. Ber cry to me was
alwaysE 4e independent.
/uthorE 2icolas de 0hamfort, writer =?OM?:?O@M>
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0ompassion : Independence
%here is no general doctrine which is not capable of eating out our morality if unchec'ed by the
deep:seated habit of direct fellow:feeling with individual fellow:men.
/uthorE ;eorge 1liot
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the revolution will not be televised.
/uthorE ;il *cott Beron
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Without the freedom to critici6e, there is no true praise.
/uthorE Pierre 4eaumarchais, playwright =?OJK:?O@@>
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0ompassion : Independence
/ hungry man is not a free man.
/uthorE /dlai *tevenson, statesman =?@AA:?@IL>
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0ivics R (aw
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/ll good things are wild, and free.
/uthorE Benry 9avid %horeau
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0reativity : Independence
Bere8s to the cra6y ones. %he misfits. %he rebels. %he troublema'ers. %he round pegs in the
s+uare holes. %he ones who see things differently. %hey8re not fond of rules. /nd they have no
respect for the status +uo. 3ou can +uote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. /bout
the only thing you can8t do is ignore them. 4ecause they change things. %hey push the human
race forward. /nd while some may see them as the cra6y ones, we see genius. 4ecause the
people who are cra6y enough to thin' they can change the world, are the ones who do.
/uthorE /pple, Inc.
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I am more afraid that this people have so much confidence in their leaders that they will not
in+uire for themselves of ;od whether they are led by him. I am fearful they settle down in a
state of blind self security. (et every man and woman 'now, by the whispering of the *pirit of
;od to themselves, whether their leaders are wal'ing in the path the (ord dictates, or not.
/uthorE 4righam 3oung
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Whenever you find yourself on the side of the ma$ority, it is time to pause and reflect.
/uthorE &ar' %wain
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%o be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to ma'e you li'e
everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop
fighting.
/uthorE 1. 1. 0ummings
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0onventionality is not morality. *elf:righteousness is not religion. %o attac' the first is not to
assail the last.
/uthorE 0harlotte 4ronte
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3ou wouldn8t worry so much about what others thin' of you if you reali6ed how seldom they do.
/uthorE 1leanor 5oosevelt
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;ive me the liberty to 'now, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all
liberties.
/uthorE John &ilton
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Bumility : Independence
It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it ac+uires
the political power to do so.
/uthorE 5obert /. Beinlein, science:fiction author =?@AO:?@NN>
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Independence : 5esponsibility
/nd the fo! said to the little princeE men have forgotten this truth, but you must not forget it. 3ou
become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.
/uthorE :/ntoine de *aint:1!upery, author and aviator =?@AA:?@ML>
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Independence : (ove
Just because two people argue, 9oesn8t mean they don8t love each other. /nd $ust because they
don8t argue, doesn8t mean they do love each other.
/uthorE .n'nown
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Independence : %ruth:see'ing
/ll great truths begin as blasphemies.
/uthorE ;eorge 4ernard *haw, 2obel laureate =?NLI:?@LA>
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0reativity : Independence
If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.
/uthorE Juan 5amon Jimene6, poet, 2obel Pri6e in literature =?NN?:?@LN>
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Independence : Integrity
Bow far should one accept the rules of the society in which one lives? %o put it another wayE at
what point does conformity become corruption? ,nly by answering such +uestions does the
conscience truly define itself.
/uthorE Qenneth %ynan, critic and writer =?@KO:?@NA>
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Independence : %ruth:see'ing
5eligious freedom should wor' two waysE we should be free to practice the religion of our
choice, but we must also be free from having someone else8s religion practiced on us.
/uthorE John Irving, novelist =b. ?@MK>
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.nthin'ing respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
/uthorE /lbert 1instein
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*cientific In+uiry
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H*apiens permanently lives in a somnambulistic condition which 'eeps him dormant, ma'ing it
impossible for him to attain real 'nowledge, and seriously damaging his awareness and
intelligence. 1ach day what he 'nows increases at the cost of his human essence, which is
reduced in direct relationship to the e!tent and potency of his cerebral programming. %his
programming converts him into a veritable biological robot with automatic physiological,
instinctive, emotional, and intellectual reactions. %he individual8s ideas, opinions, or sentiments
lose all human validity, and he is converted into a mere circuit activated by e!ternal influences.
%hese e!ternal influences are thus converted into disconnected elements of the individual8s
internal reactions, a mere echo of the cultural concert and the emotional and instinctive tide of
humanity.
/uthorE John 4aines
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/ considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside,
that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not 'now it.
If we 'new what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people
govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.
/uthorE ;.I. ;urd$ieff
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2ew /ge
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*o preserve yourselves, my brothers, from the calamities of this place, for distinguishing it is
e!tremely difficultF *ouls find it sweet, and then within it they are duped, since they become
completely enamored of it.
/uthorE *ufi proverb
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Islam
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%he power of accurate observation is fre+uently called cynicism by those who don8t have it.
/uthorE ;eorge 4ernard *haw
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%he human heart cries out for help< the human soul implores us for deliverance< but we do not
heed their cries, for we neither hear nor understand. 4ut the man who hears and understands we
call mad, and flee from him.
/uthorE Qhalil ;ibran
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Independence : %ruth:see'ing
or the total development of the human being, solitude as a means of cultivating sensitivity
becomes a necessity. ,ne has to 'now what it means to be alone, what it is to meditate, what it is
to die< and the implications of solitude, of meditation, of death, can be 'nown only by see'ing
them out. %hese implications cannot be taught, they must be learned.
/uthorE Qrishnamurti
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Interfaith
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Independence : Vision
or the great ma$ority of man'ind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities,
and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are.
/uthorE 2iccolo &achiavelli
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*tructures of which we are unaware hold us prisoner.
/uthorE Peter *enge
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Independence : 5ationality
If you follow the ways in which you were trained, which you may have inherited, for no other
reason than this, you are illogical.
/uthorE 5umi
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Islam
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/daptability : Independence
9on#t let the world around you s+uee6e you into its own mold, but let ;od re:mold your minds
from within.
/uthorE .n'nown
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&en spend the best parts of their lives earning money in order to en$oy a +uestionable liberty
during the least valuable part of it.
/uthorE Benry 9avid %horeau
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.nitarian
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%hat government is best which governs not at all: and when men are prepared for it, that will be
the 'ind of government which they will have.
/uthorE Benry 9avid %horeau
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Independence : Virtue
%hey who assert the purest right, and conse+uently are most dangerous to a corrupt *tate,
commonly have not spent much time accumulating property. %he rich man is always sold to the
institution which ma'es him rich. /bsolutely spea'ing, the more money, the less virtue< for
money comes between a man and his ob$ects, and obtains them for him< and it was certainly no
great virtue to obtain it.
/uthorE Benry 9avid %horeau
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What we call &an#s power over 2ature turns out to be a power e!ercised by some men over
other men with 2ature as its instrument.
/uthorE 0.*. (ewis
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1ven if you are a minority of one, the truth is still the truth.
/uthorE ;andhi
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Interfaith
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Independence : %ruth:see'ing
/ll truth passes through three stagesE irst, it is ridiculed. *econd, it is violently opposed. %hird,
it is accepted as self:evident.
/uthorE /rthur *chopenhauer
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&ost people are other people. %heir thoughts are someone else#s opinions, their lives a mimicry,
their passions a +uotation.
/uthorE ,scar Wilde
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9iscernment : Independence
%he most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to thin' things out for
himself.
/uthorE B.(. &enc'en
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Independence : Integrity
.ncleanness is so much the attribute of officials that one could almost regard them as enormous
parasites-In the same way the fathers in Qaf'a#s strange families batten on their sons, lying on
top of them li'e giant parasites. %hey not only prey upon their strength, but gnaw away at the
sons# right to e!ist. %he fathers punish, but they are at the same time the accusers. %he sin of
which they accuse their sons seems to be a 'ind of original sin.
/uthorE Walter 4en$amin
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antastic doctrines re+uire unanimity of belief. ,ne dissenter casts doubt on the creed of
millions. %hus the fear and the hate< thus the torture chamber, the iron sta'e, the gallows, the
labor camp, the psychiatric ward.
/uthorE 1dward /bbey
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It is perfectly possible for a man to be out of prison, and yet not free: to be under no physical
restraint and yet to be a psychological captive, compelled to thin', feel, and act as the
representatives of the national state, or of some private interest within the nation, wants him to
thin', feel, and act-%he nature of psychological compulsion is such that those who act under
constraint remain under the impression that they are acting of their own initiative. %he victim of
mind manipulation does not 'now that he is a victim. %o him the walls of his prison are invisible,
and he believes himself to be free. %hat he is not free is apparent only to other people. Bis
servitude is strictly ob$ective.
/uthorE /ldous Bu!ley
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-the sic' individual finds himself at home with all other sic' individuals. %he whole culture is
geared to this 'ind of pathology. %he result is that the average individual does not e!perience the
separateness and isolation the fully schi6ophrenic person feels. Be feels at ease among those who
suffer from the same deformation< in fact, it is the fully sane person who feels isolated in an
insane society: and he may suffer so much from the incapacity to communicate that it is he who
may become psychotic.
/uthorE 1rich romm
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Insanity is a perfectly natural ad$ustment to a totally unnatural and negative environment.
/uthorE 5.9. (aing
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%he individual has always had to struggle to 'eep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. It you
try it, you will often be lonely, and sometimes frightened. 4ut no price is too high to pay for the
privelage of owning yourself.
/uthorE 2iet6sche
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Bumanism
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Independence : 5ationality
/nything that#s popular is a rear:view image.
/uthorE &arshall &c(uhan
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reedom granted only when it is 'nown beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not
freedom.
/uthorE riedrich Baye'
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4etter to be despised for too an!ious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security.
/uthorE 1dmund 4ur'e
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It had always been a notion of mine that sanity is li'e a clearing in the $ungle where the humans
agree to meet from time to time and behave in certain fi!ed ways that even a baboon could
master-
/uthorE Wilfrid *heed
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Independence : Vision
,nce you have glimpsed the world as it might be, as it ought to be and as it#s going to be
=however that vision appears to you>, it is impossible to live compliant and complacent anymore
in this world as it is.
/uthorE Victoria *afford
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What is uni+ue about the "I# is that hides itself e!actly in what is unimaginable about a person.
/ll we are able to imagine is what ma'es everyone li'e everyone else, what people have in
common. %he individual "I# is what differs from the common stoc', that is, what cannot be
guessed at or calculated, what must be unveiled, uncovered, con+uered.
/uthorE &ilan Qundera
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Guality is better seen up at the timberline than here obscured by smo'y windows and oceans of
words, and he sees that what he is tal'ing about can never really be accepted here because to see
it one has to be free of social authority and this is an institution of social authority. Guality for
sheep is what the shepherd says. /nd if you ta'e a sheep and put it up at the timberline at night
when the wind is roaring, that sheep will be panic'ed half to death and will call and call until the
shepherd comes, or comes the wolf.
/uthorE 5obert &. Pirsig
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.niversal 1thics
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Independence : Virtue
/ culture:bearing boo', li'e a mule, bears the culture on its bac'. 2o one should sit down to
write one deliberately. 0ulture:bearing boo's appear almost accidentally, li'e a sudden surge in
the stoc' mar'et. %here are boo's of high +uality that are a part of the culture, but that is not the
same. %hey are a part of it. %hey aren#t carrying it anywhere. %hey may tal' about insanity
sympathetically, for e!ample, because that#s the standard cultural attitude. 4ut they don#t carry
any suggestion that insanity might be something other than sic'ness or degeneracy.
/uthorE 5obert &. Pirsig
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.niversal 1thics
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*anity is not truth. *anity is conformity to what is socially e!pected. %ruth is sometimes in
conformity, sometimes not.
/uthorE 5obert &. Pirsig
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If there is anything in the world that can really be called a man#s property, it is surely that which
is the result of his mental activity.
/uthorE /rthur *chopenhauer
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We forfeit three:fourths of ourselves in order to be li'e other people.
/uthorE /rthur *chopenhauer
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/t this point in history, the most radical, pervasive, and earth:sha'ing transformation would
occur simply if every body truly evolved to a mature, rational, and responsible ego, capable of
freely participating in the open e!change of mutual self:esteem. %here is the "edge of history#.
%here would be a real 2ew /ge.
/uthorE Qen Wilber
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Independence : 5esponsibility
%he fear of freedom is strong in us. We call it chaos or anarchy, and the words are threatening.
We live in a true chaos of contradicting authorities, an age of conformism without community, of
pro!imity without communication. We could only fear chaos if we imagined that it was un'nown
to us, but in fact we 'now it very well.
/uthorE ;ermaine ;reer
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%he paramount +uestion of the day is not political, is not religious, but is economic. %he crying:
out demand of today is for a circle of principles that shall forever ma'e it impossible for one man
to control any other by controlling the means of his e!istence.
/uthorE Volairine de 0levre
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Independence : 5ationality
%hin' for yourself and +uestion authority.
/uthorE %imothy (eary
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Bumanism
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%he real sin of idolatry is always committed on behalf of something similar to the *tate.
/uthorE *imone Weil
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I have always supported measures and principles and not men. I have acted fearless and
independent and I never will regret my course. I would rather be politically buried than to be
hypocritically immortali6ed.
/uthorE 9avy 0roc'ett
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1thics : Independence
%here will never be a free and enlightened *tate until the *tate comes to recogni6e the individual
as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and
treats him accordingly.
/uthorE Benry 9avid %horeau
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.nitarian
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%herefore, be islands unto yourselves. 4e your own refuge. Bave recourse to none else for
refuge. Bold fast to the 9harma as a refuge. 5esort to no other refuge. Whosoever, either now or
after I am gone, shall be islands unto themselves, shall see' no eternal refuge, it is they, among
my disciples who shall reach the very topmost heightF 4ut they must be 'een to progress.
/uthorE 4uddha
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4uddhism
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Independence : 5ationality
%he difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify, for
those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.
/uthorE John &aynard Qeynes
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Bumanism
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Independence : %ruth:see'ing
In religion and politics, people#s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at
second:hand, and without e!amination, from authorities who have not themselves e!amined the
+uestions at issue, but have ta'en them at second:hand from other non:e!aminers, whose
opinions about them are not worth a brass farthing.
/uthorE &ar' %wain
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Bumanism
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Bappiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. or all e!ternal forms of
happiness are, by their own nature, highly uncertain, precarious, ephemeral, and sub$ect to
chance.
/uthorE /rthur *chopenhauer
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&an#s main tas' in life is to give birth to himself.
/uthorE 1rich romm
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Independence : Integrity
%his above allE to thine own self be true, /nd it must follow, as the night the day, %hou canst not
then be false to any man.
/uthorE William *ha'espeare, poet and dramatist =?LIM:?I?I>
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Independence : 5esponsibility
%he man who does not do his own thin'ing is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his
fellow:men.
/uthorE 5obert ;reen Ingersoll
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Bumanism
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Independence : Insight
%he characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is
religious warfare. ,ther animals fight for territory or food< but, uni+uely in the animal 'ingdom,
human beings fight for their 8beliefs.8 %he reason is that beliefs guide behavior, which has
evolutionary importance among human beings. 4ut at a time when our behavior may well lead us
to e!tinction, I see no reason to assume we have any awareness at all. We are stubborn, self:
destructive conformists. /ny other view of our species is $ust a self:congratulatory delusion.
/uthorE &ichael 0richton
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Bumility : Independence
While fame impedes and constricts, obscurity wraps about a man li'e a mist< obscurity is dar',
ample, and free< obscurity lets the mind ta'e its way unimpeded. ,ver the obscure man is poured
the merciful suffusion of dar'ness. 2one 'nows where he goes or comes. Be may see' the truth
and spea' it< he alone is free< he alone is truthful, he alone is at peace.
/uthorE Virginia Woolf, writer =?NNK:?@M?>
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/cceptance : Independence
1verybody is uni+ue. 9o not compare yourself with anybody else lest you spoil ;od8s
curriculum.
/uthorE 4aal *hem %ov
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Judaism
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0reativity : Independence
ollow your own weird.
/uthorE 4ig Joy Pro$ect
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Independence : &indfulness
Imitation is often a shortcut to a solution. We copy when we lac' the inclination, the ability or
the time to wor' out an independent solution. People in a hurry will imitate more readily than
people at leisure. Bustling thus tends to produce uniformity. /nd in the deliberate fusing of
individuals into a compact group, incessant action will play a considerable role.
/uthorE 1ric Boffer
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Bumor : Independence
%here are few things as nausiating as pure obediance
/uthorE .n'nown
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Independence : Judgment
9epend upon yourself. &a'e your $udgment trustworthy by trusting it. 3ou can develop good
$udgment as you do the muscles of your body : by $udicious, daily e!ercise.
/uthorE ;rantland 5ice
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Independence : *'epticism
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it8s still a foolish thing.
/uthorE 4ertrand 5ussell
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reethought
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Independence : *'epticism
%he fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence that it is not utterly absurd< indeed,
in view of the silliness of the ma$ority of man'ind, a widespread belief is more li'ely to be
foolish than sensible.
/uthorE 4ertrand 5ussell
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reethought
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Independence : ,penness
5estriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one
un:/merican act that could most easily defeat us.
/uthorE William ,. 9ouglas, ..*. *upreme 0ourt Justice
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9o not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
/uthorE 4ertrand 5ussell, philosopher, mathematician, 2obel laureate =?NOK:?@OA>
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We cannot live in a world that is not our own, in a world that is interpreted for us by others. /n
interpreted world is not a home. Part of the terror is to ta'e bac' our own listening, to use our
own voice, to see our own light.
/uthorE Bildegard Von 4ingen, mystic =?A@N:??O@>
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0hristianity
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airness : Independence
,nce social change begins, it cannot be reversed. 3ou cannot uneducate the person who has
learned to read. 3ou cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. 3ou cannot oppress the people
who are not afraid anymore. We have seen the future, and the future is ours.
/uthorE 0esar 0have6
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%hat so few now dare to be eccentric mar's the chief danger of the time.
/uthorE John *tuart &ill,
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1nlightenment Philosophy
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%he price we pay for money is paid in liberty.
/uthorE 5obert (ouis *tevenson, author =?NLA:?N@M>
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ew people are capable of e!pressing with e+uanimity opinions which differ from the pre$udices
of their social environment. &ost people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
/uthorE /lbert 1instein
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%he %hings to do areE the things that need doing, that you see need to be done, and that no one
else seems to see need to be done. %hen you will conceive your own way of doing that which
needs to be done X that no one else has told you to do or how to do it. %his will bring out the
real you that often gets buried inside a character that has ac+uired a superficial array of behaviors
induced or imposed by others on the individual.
/uthorE 4uc'minster uller
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It is no measure of health to be well ad$usted to a profoundly sic' society.
/uthorE J. Qrishnamurti, author, spea'er, and philosopher
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/lways stay in your own movie.
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I love people. I love my family, my children . . . but inside myself is a place where I live all alone
and that8s where you renew your springs that never dry up.
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or there is one thing I can safely sayE that those bound by love must obey each other if they are
to 'eep company long. (ove will not be constrained by mastery< when mastery comes, the ;od
of love at once beats his wings, and farewell :: he is gone. (ove is a thing as free as any spirit<
women naturally desire liberty, and not to be constrained li'e slaves< and so do men, if I shall tell
the truth.
/uthorE ;eoffrey 0haucer
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Bim that I love, I wish to be free :: even from me.
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/t the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lur's a miserable
cowardice. &en will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public
opinion.
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In the world to come, I shall not be as'ed, HWhy were you not &oses?H I shall be as'ed, HWhy
were you not Susya?
/uthorE 5abbi Susya
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1thics : Independence
0ivili6ation can only revive when there shall come into being in a number of individuals a new
tone of mind, independent of the prevalent one among the crowds, and in opposition to it :: a
tone of mind which will gradually win influence over the collective one, and in the end
determine its character. ,nly an ethical movement can rescue us from barbarism, and the ethical
comes into e!istence only in individuals.
/uthorE /lbert *chweit6er
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We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who wal'ed through the huts
comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. %hey may have been few in number, but
they offer sufficient proof that everything can be ta'en from a man but one thingE the last of the
human freedoms :: to choose one8s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one8s
own way.
/uthorE Victor ran'l
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(iberty, ta'ing the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose.
/uthorE *imone Weil
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/ person needs at intervals to separate from family and companions and go to new places. ,ne
must go without familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.
/uthorE Qatharine 4utler Bathaway
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%hose who would deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves< and, under a $ust ;od,
cannot long retain it.
/uthorE /braham (incoln
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2o man is good enough to govern another man without that other8s consent.
/uthorE /braham (incoln
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%he greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.
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Independence : ,penness
%he combined wisdom and genius of all man'ind cannot possibly conceive of an argument
against liberty of thought.
/uthorE 5obert Ingersoll, ?NOO
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Intellectual liberty UisW the right to thin' right and the right to thin' wrong. %hought is the means
by which we endeavor to arrive at truth.
/uthorE 5obert ;. Ingersoll, ?NOO
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%here may or may not be a *upreme 5uler of the universe::but we are certain that man e!ists,
and we believe that freedom is the condition of progress< that it is the sunshine of the mental and
moral world, and that without it man will go bac' to the den of savagery, and wll become the fit
associate of wild and ferocious beasts.
/uthorE 5obert Ingersoll, ?N@A
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reedom fighters don8t always win, but they8re always right.
/uthorE &olly Ivins
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We need people who will dare to ris' anything and everything to see things different.
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0ompassion : Independence
9emocratic societies- leave much to be desired, but are certainly the most satisfactory to date.
%hey are based on freedom, talent, chance, and merit, while including a safety net for those who
have fallen off the high wire of health and success.
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It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is
but the convention of your set.
/uthorE W. *omerset &augham
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Who so would be a man must be a nonconformist.
/uthorE 5alph Waldo 1merson
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If the law is of such a nature that it re+uires you to be an agent of in$ustice to another, then I say,
brea' the law.
/uthorE Benry 9avid %horeau
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If a man does not 'eep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different
drummer. (et him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
/uthorE Benry 9avid %horeau
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reedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
/uthorE ;eorge ,rwell
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Beresy is what the minority believe< it is the name given by the powerful to the doctrines of the
wea'.
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It is easy to live after the world8s opinion< it is easy in solitude to live after our own< but the great
man is he who in the midst of the crowd 'eeps with perfect sweetness the independence of
solitude.
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/ dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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%he point of life is not to meet society8s standards, but to e!ceed your own goals.
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airness : Independence
We hold these truths to be self:evident, that all men are created e+ual, that they are endowed by
their 0reator with certain unalienable 5ights, that among these are (ife, (iberty and the pursuit
of Bappiness.:::%hat to secure these rights, ;overnments are instituted among &en, deriving
their $ust powers from the consent of the governed, :::%hat whatever any orm of ;overnment
becomes destructive of these ends, it is the 5ight of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to
institute new ;overnment, laying its foundation on such principles and organi6ing its powers in
such form, as to them shall seem most li'ely to effect their *afety and Bappiness.
/uthorE ..*. 9eclaration of Independence
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%he privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
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1ven if everyone elseIs not doing good,I alone will.1ven if everyone elseis doing wrong,I alone
will not.
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%he whole secret of e!istence is to have no fear. 2ever fear what will become of you, depend on
no one. ,nly the moment you re$ect all help are you freed.
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Pin your faith to no ones sleeves, haven8t you two eyes of your own.
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%he true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.
/uthorE Voltaire
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/ny power must be an enemy of man'ind which enslaves the individual by terror and force,
whether it arises under the ascist or the 0ommunist flag. /ll that is valuable in human society
depends upon the opportunity for development accorded to the individual.
;ive me the liberty to 'now, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all
liberties.
John Milton
Be that studieth revenge 'eepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do
well.
John Milton
Be who 'ills a man 'ills a reasonable creature, but he who destroys a good boo' 'ills reason
itself.
John Milton
Be who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a 'ing.
John Milton
2o man who 'now aught can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.
John Milton
2one can love freedom heartily, but good men< the rest love not freedom, but license.
John Milton
%he mind is its own place, and in itself can ma'e a Beaven of Bell, a Bell of Beaven.
John Milton
Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing,
many opinions< for opinions in good men is but 'nowledge in the ma'ing.
John Milton
: &ore +uotations onE U,pinionsW
Who overcomes by force hath overcome but half his foe.
John Milton
JOHN MILTON QUOTES
Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil.
JOHN MILTON, Lycidas
Yet some there be that by due steps aspire
To lay their ust hands on that golden !ey
That opes the pala"e o# $ternity.
JOHN MILTON, Comus
Long is the way
%nd hard, that out o# hell leads up to light.
JOHN MILTON, Paradise Lost
&u"h sweet "ompulsion doth in musi" lie.
JOHN MILTON, Arcades
'oo!s are not absolutely dead things, but do "ontain a poten"y o# li#e in them to be as a"ti(e as that soul
was whose progeny they are) nay they do preser(e as in a (ial the purest e##i"a"y and e*tra"tion o# that
li(ing intelle"t that bred them.
JOHN MILTON, Areopagitica
None "an lo(e #reedom heartily, but good men) the rest lo(e not #reedom, but li"en"e.
JOHN MILTON, Tenure of Kings and Magistrates
The mind is its own pla"e, and in itsel#
+an ma!e a hea(en o# Hell, a hell o# Hea(en.
JOHN MILTON, Paradise Lost
Lo(e,-uarrels o#t in pleasing "on"ord end.
JOHN MILTON, Samson Agonistes
.irtue may be assailed, but ne(er hurt,
&urprised by unust #or"e, but not enthralled.
JOHN MILTON, Comus
O thie(ish Night,
/hy shouldst thou, but #or some #elonious end,
In thy dar! lantern thus "lose up the stars,
That nature hung in hea(en, and #illed their lamps
/ith e(erlasting oil, to gi(e due light
To the misled and lonely tra(eller0
JOHN MILTON, Comus
1ea"e hath her (i"tories
No less renowned than war.
JOHN MILTON, To the Lord General Cromwell, May 1!"
'eauty is Nature2s "oin, must not be hoarded,
'ut must be "urrent, and the good thereo#
+onsists in mutual and parta!en bliss.
JOHN MILTON, Comus
For neither man nor angel "an dis"ern
Hypo"risy, the only e(il that wal!s
In(isible, e*"ept to 3od alone.
JOHN MILTON, Paradise Lost
/ho o(er"omes
'y #or"e, hath o(er"ome but hal# his #oe.
JOHN MILTON, Paradise Lost
O#ttimes nothing pro#its more
Than sel#,esteem, grounded on ust and right
/ell managed.
JOHN MILTON, Paradise Lost
Millions o# spiritual "reatures wal! the earth
4nseen, both when we wa!e, and when we sleep.
JOHN MILTON, Paradise Lost
Hail wedded lo(e, mysterious law, true sour"e
O# human o##spring, sole propriety,
In 1aradise o# all things "ommon else.
JOHN MILTON, Paradise Lost
The ora"les are dumb,
No (oi"e or hideous hum
5uns through the ar"hed roo# in words de"ei(ing.
%pollo #rom his shrine
+an no more di(ine,
/ith hollow shrie! the steep o# 6elphos lea(ing.
No nightly tran"e or breath7d spell,
Inspires the pale,eyed priest #rom the propheti" "ell.
JOHN MILTON, #ymn
&weet is the breath o# morn, her rising sweet,
/ith "harm o# earliest birds.
JOHN MILTON, Paradise Lost
% good boo! is the pre"ious li#e,blood o# a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a li#e
beyond li#e.
JOHN MILTON, Areopagitica
3ood, the more
+ommuni"ated, more abundant grows.
JOHN MILTON, Paradise Lost
Though all the winds o# do"trine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the #ield, we do
inuriously by li"ensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple) who e(er
!new Truth put to the worse, in a #ree and open en"ounter.
JOHN MILTON, Areopagitica
/hat i# earth
'e but the shadow o# Hea(en, and things therein
$a"h to other li!e, more than on earth is thought0
JOHN MILTON, Paradise Lost
%ll heart they li(e, all head, all eye, all ear,
%ll intelle"t, all sense, and as they please
They limb themsel(es, and "olour, shape, or si8e,
%ssume, as li!es them best, "ondense or rare.
JOHN MILTON, Paradise Lost
Towered "ities please us then,
%nd the busy hum o# men.
JOHN MILTON, L$Allegro
I will point ye out the right path o# a (irtuous and noble $du"ation) laborious indeed at #irst as"ent, but else
so smooth, so green, so #ull o# goodly prospe"t, and melodious sounds on e(ery side, that the harp o#
Orpheus was not more "harming.
JOHN MILTON, %f &ducation
For what "an war but endless war still breed0
JOHN MILTON, %n the Lord General 'airfa(
5e(enge, at #irst though sweet,
'itter ere long ba"! on itsel# re"oils.
JOHN MILTON, Paradise Lost
/here there is mu"h desire to learn, there o# ne"essity will be mu"h arguing, mu"h writing, many opinions)
#or opinion in good men is but !nowledge in the ma!ing.
JOHN MILTON, Areopagitica
Yet beauty, though inurious, hath strange power,
%#ter o##en"e returning, to regain
Lo(e on"e possess2d.
JOHN MILTON, Samson Agonistes
3o in thy nati(e inno"en"e, rely
On what thou hast o# (irtue, summon all,
For 3od towards thee hath done his part, do thine.
JOHN MILTON, Paradise Lost
The #irst and wisest o# them all pro#essed
To !now this only, that he nothing !new.
JOHN MILTON, Paradise )egained
4nder his #orming hands a "reature grew,
Man,li!e, but di##erent se*) so lo(ely #air
That what seemed #air in all the world, seemed now
Mean, or in her summed up, in her "ontained,
%nd in her loo!s) whi"h #rom that time in#us2d
&weetness into my heart, un#elt be#ore,
%nd into all things #rom her air inspir2d
The spirit o# lo(e and amorous delight.
&he disappear2d, and le#t me dar!) I wa!2d
To #ind her, or #or her e(er to deplore
Her loss, and other pleasures abure9
/hen out o# hope, behold her, not #ar o##,
&u"h as I saw her in my dream, adorn2d
/ith what all $arth or Hea(en "ould bestow
To ma!e her amiable9 On she "ame,
Led by her Hea(enly Ma!er, though unseen,
%nd guided by his (oi"e) nor unin#orm2d
O# nuptial san"tity, and marriage rites9
3ra"e was in her steps, hea(en in her eye,
In e(ery gesture dignity and lo(e.
Let none admire
That ri"hes grow in Hell) that soil may best
6eser(e the pre"ious bane.
JOHN MILTON, Paradise Lost
Thou O &pirit, that dost pre#er
'e#ore all Temples th2 upright heart and pure,
Instru"t me, #or Thou !now2st) Thou #rom the #irst
/ast present, and with mighty wings outspread
6o(e,li!e satst brooding on the (ast %byss
%nd mad2st it pregnant9 /hat is in me dar!
Illumine, what is low raise and support)
That to the heighth o# this great %rgument
I may assert $ternal 1ro(iden"e,
%nd usti#y the ways o# 3od to men.
JOHN MILTON, Paradise Lost
/ho #irst sedu"ed them to that #oul re(olt0
Th2 in#ernal &erpent) he it was whose guile,
&tirred up with en(y and re(enge, de"ei(ed
The mother o# man!ind, what time his pride
Had "ast him out #rom Hea(en, with all his host
O# rebel %ngels, by whose aid, aspiring
To set himsel# in glory abo(e his peers,
He trusted to ha(e e-ualled the Most High,
I# he opposed, and with ambitious aim
%gainst the throne and monar"hy o# 3od,
5aised impious war in Hea(en and battle proud,
/ith (ain attempt. Him the %lmighty 1ower
Hurled headlong #laming #rom th2 ethereal s!y,
/ith hideous ruin and "ombustion, down
To bottomless perdition, there to dwell
In adamantine "hains and penal #ire,
/ho durst de#y th2 Omnipotent to arms.
JOHN MILTON, Paradise Lost
'etter to reign in Hell, then ser(e in Hea(2n.
JOHN MILTON, Paradise Lost
This horror will grow mild, this dar!ness light)
'esides what hope the ne(er,ending #light
O# #uture days may bring, what "han"e, what "hange
/orth waiting,,sin"e our present lot appears
For happy though but ill, #or ill not worst,
I# we pro"ure not to oursel(es more woe.
JOHN MILTON, Paradise Lost
Men only disagree
O# +reatures rational, though under hope
O# hea(enly 3ra"e) and 3od pro"laiming pea"e,
Yet li(e in hatred, enmity, and stri#e
%mong themsel(es, and le(y "ruel wars,
/asting the $arth, ea"h other to destroy9
%s i# :whi"h might indu"e us to a""ord;
Man had not hellish #oes enough besides,
That day and night #or his destru"tion wait.
JOHN MILTON, Paradise Lost
% dungeon horrible, on all sides round,
%s one great #urna"e #lamed) yet #rom those #lames
No light) but rather dar!ness (isible
&er(ed only to dis"o(er sights o# woe,
5egions o# sorrow, dole#ul shades, where pea"e
%nd rest "an ne(er dwell, hope ne(er "omes
That "omes to all, but torture without end
&till urges, and a #iery deluge, #ed
/ith e(er,burning sulphur un"onsumed.
&u"h pla"e $ternal Justi"e has prepared
For those rebellious) here their prison ordained
In utter dar!ness, and their portion set,
%s #ar remo(ed #rom 3od and light o# Hea(en
%s #rom the "entre thri"e to th2 utmost pole.
JOHN MILTON, Paradise Lost
I will pla"e within them as a guide
My umpire +ons"ien"e, whom i# they will hear,
Light a#ter light well us2d they shall attain,
%nd to the end persisting, sa#e arri(e.
JOHN MILTON, Paradise Lost
Hea(2nly lo(e shall outdo Hellish hate.
JOHN MILTON, Paradise Lost
&o little !nows
%ny, but 3od alone, but per(erts best things
To worst abuse, or to their meanest use.
JOHN MILTON, Paradise Lost
Man hath his daily wor! o# body or mind
%ppointed, whi"h de"lares his dignity,
%nd the regard o# Hea(2n on all his ways)
/hile other animals una"ti(e range,
%nd o# their doings 3od ta!es no a""ount.
JOHN MILTON, Paradise Lost
Night bids us rest.
JOHN MILTON, 1aradise Lost
<nowledge #orbidden0
&uspi"ious, reasonless. /hy should their Lord
$n(y them that0 +an it be sin to !now,
+an it be death0 %nd do they only stand
'y ignoran"e0 Is that their happy state,
The proo# o# their obedien"e and their #aith0
O #air #oundation laid whereon to build
Their ruin=
JOHN MILTON, Paradise Lost
That thou art happy, owe to 3od)
That thou "ontinu2st su"h, owe to thy sel#,
That is, to thy obedien"e) therein stand.
JOHN MILTON, Paradise Lost
These are thy glorious wor!s 1arent o# 3ood,
%lmighty, thine this uni(ersal Frame,
Thus wondrous #air) thy sel# how wondrous then=
4nspea!able, who sitst abo(e these Hea(ens
To us in(isible or dimly seen
In these thy lowest wor!s, yet these de"lare
Thy goodness beyond thought, and 1ower 6i(ine9
&pea! ye who best "an tell, ye &ons o# light,
%ngels, #or ye behold him, and with songs
%nd "horal symphonies, 6ay without Night,
+ir"le his Throne reoi"ing, ye in Hea(2n,
On $arth oin all ye +reatures to e*toll
Him #irst, him last, him midst, and without end.
JOHN MILTON, Paradise Lost
%nd some are #all2n, to disobedien"e #all2n,
%nd so #rom Hea(2n to deepest Hell) O #all
From what high state o# bliss into what woe=
JOHN MILTON, Paradise Lost
Hail uni(ersal Lord, be bounteous still
To gi(e us only good) and i# the night
Ha(e gathered aught o# e(il or "on"ealed,
6isperse it, as now light dispels the dar!.
JOHN MILTON, Paradise Lost
Hypo"risy, the only e(il that wal!s
In(isible, e*"ept to 3od alone.
JOHN MILTON, Paradise Lost
Time, though in $ternity, applied
To motion, measures all things durable
'y present, past, and #uture.
JOHN MILTON, Paradise Lost
%ll who ha(e their reward on $arth, the #ruits
O# pain#ul superstition and blind 8eal,
Naught see!ing but the praise o# men, here #ind
Fit retribution, empty as their deeds.
JOHN MILTON, Paradise Lost
Anda tu camino sin ayuda del vecino
%he mind is its own place and in itself, can ma'e a Beaven of Bell, a Bell of Beaven.
John &ilton
&ind, Bell, Place
;ratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent
moments of awe that change forever how we e!perience life and the world.
John &ilton
(ife, 0hange, 1!perience
Be who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a 'ing.
John &ilton
Bimself, Within, 5ules
0onfusion heard his voice, and wild uproar *tood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined< %ill at his
second bidding dar'ness fled, (ight shone, and order from disorder sprung.
John &ilton
0onfusion, (ight, 9ar'ness
4etter to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
John &ilton
Bell, Beaven, *erve
Be that has light within his own clear breast &ay sit in the centre, and en$oy bright dayE 4ut he
that hides a dar' soul and foul thoughts 4enighted wal's under the mid:day sun< Bimself his
own dungeon.
John &ilton
&ay, 1n$oy, %houghts
Be that studieth revenge 'eepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do
well.
John &ilton
5evenge, ;reen, Wounds
2one can love freedom heartily, but good men< the rest love not freedom, but licence.
John &ilton
(ove, ;ood, &en
;ive me the liberty to 'now, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all
liberties.
John &ilton
;ive, (iberty, 0onscience
9eath is the golden 'ey that opens the palace of eternity.
John &ilton
9eath, Qey, ;olden
%o be blind is not miserable< not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.
John &ilton
/ble, &iserable, 4lind
When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost
bound of civil liberty attained that wise men loo' for.
John &ilton
&en, Wise, (iberty
or what can war, but endless war, still breed?
John &ilton
War, 1ndless, 4reed
%he stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to
the misled and lonely traveller.
John &ilton
2ature, (onely, ;ive
/ good boo' is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.
John &ilton
;ood, 4oo', *pirit
%he superior man ac+uaints himself with many sayings of anti+uity and many deeds of the past,
in order to strengthen his character thereby.
John &ilton
0haracter, Past, Bimself
2o man who 'nows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.
John &ilton
&en, *tupid, ree
2othing profits more than self:esteem, grounded on what is $ust and right.
John &ilton
Profits, ;rounded
%ruth never comes into the world but li'e a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her
birth.
John &ilton
%ruth, Bim, Ber
4eauty is nature8s brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most
may wonder at the wor'manship.
John &ilton
4eauty, 2ature, &ay
(ove:+uarrels oft in pleasing concord end.
John &ilton
1nd, Pleasing, 0oncord
%hey also serve who only stand and wait.
John &ilton
Wait, *tand, *erve
Who 'ills a man 'ills a reasonable creature, ;od8s image, but thee who destroys a good boo',
'ills reason its self.
John &ilton
;ood, ;od, 4oo'
Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.
John &ilton
Balf, orce, ,vercome
9eep:versed in boo's and shallow in himself.
John &ilton