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• Since the generality of persons act from impulse much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them.
  -- Hare...
• The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities.
  Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith....
• hacker ethic n. 1. The belief that information-sharing is a powerful positive good
  and that it is an ethical duty of hackers to share their expertise by writing open-source and facilitating access to information and to computing resources wherever possible....
• False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience
  hat would take fire from men because it burns, and water because one may drown in i...
• Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible
  but the world of pure reason knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity....
• The gods can either take away evil from the world and will not, or, being willing to do so canno
  or they neither can nor will, or lastly, they are both able and willing....
• Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.
  Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back....
• Men can suck the heady juice of exalted self-importance from the bitter weed of failure - failures are usually the most conceited of men.
  -- D. H. Lawrence...
• There is one god, greatest among gods and men, neither in shape nor in thought like unto mortals.
  -- Xenophanes of Colophon (c.570-c.475 BCE) "Fragments" No. 23...