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True knowledge is not attained by thinking. It is what you are; it is what you become. ― Sri Aurobindo    

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Hell is truth seen too late.  - Thomas Hobbes

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Is it possible for a man to move the earth? Yes; but he must first find out another earth to stand upon.  -  Jeremy Bentham

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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them. ―  John Stuart Mill

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It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law. - Thomas Hobbes

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Reputation is the road to power. -  Jeremy Bentham

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A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. - John Stuart Mill The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone. - Thomas Hobbes

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Every law is an infraction of liberty. -  Jeremy Bentham

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A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case, he is justly accountable to them for the injury. - John Stuart Mill

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During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man. - Thomas Hobbes

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Happiness is a very pretty thing to feel, but very dry to talk about.  -  Jeremy Bentham

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Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives. - John Stuart Mill

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Curiosity is the lust of the mind. - Thomas Hobbes

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Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet. -  Jeremy Bentham

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That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself. - Thomas Hobbes

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The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. - John Stuart Mill

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...the rarest of all human qualities is consistency. -  Jeremy Bentham

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One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests. - John Stuart Mill
In the state of nature profit is the measure of right. - Thomas Hobbes

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The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but "Can they suffer? -  Jeremy Bentham