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If men will not act for themselves, what will they do when the benefit of their effort is for all?
Elbert Hubbard1856–1915A Message to Garcia (1899)
An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.
Elbert Hubbard1856–1915“Get Out or Get in Line,” Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard, pp. 59–60 (1928)
The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.
Elbert Hubbard1856–1915
If men could only know each other, they would never either idolize or hate.
Elbert Hubbard1856–1915A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911), p. 13
When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.
Victor Hugo1802–1885
To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.
Victor Hugo1802–1885Quatre-vingt-treize (Ninety-Three) (1874), Book VII, Chapter V
The need of the immaterial is the most deeply rooted of all needs. One must have bread; but before bread, one must have the ideal.
Victor Hugo1802–1885“Les fleurs,” (ca. 1860—1865), from Oeuvres complètes (1909); published in English as The Memoirs of Victor Hugo, trans. John W. Harding (1899), Chapter VI: Love in Prison, part II
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
Aldous Huxley1894–1963
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
Aldous Huxley1894–1963Themes and Variations (1950), “Variations on a Philosopher”
Speed provides the one great modern pleasure.
Aldous Huxley1894–1963
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
Aldous Huxley1894–1963Ends and Means (1937), Ch. 1, p. 9 [2012 reprint]
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There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
Aldous Huxley1894–1963Time Must Have a Stop (1944)
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I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
Henrik Ibsen1828–1906Letter to Georg Brandes (3 January 1882).
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When our first parents were driven out of Paradise, Adam is believed to have remarked to Eve: “My dear, we live in an age of transition.”
William Ralph Inge1860–1954Assessments and Anticipations (1929), p. 261
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So the pendulum swings, now violently, now slowly; and every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival.
William Ralph Inge1860–1954“Democracy and the Future” The Atlantic Monthly (March 1922)
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