Quote by Thomas Huxley
I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every

I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing the happiness of his fellow men. – Thomas Huxley

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The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification. – Thomas Huxley

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Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact. – Thomas Huxley

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I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer. – Thomas Huxley

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You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. – Albert Camus

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The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances. – Martha Washington

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Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner. – James F. Cooper

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Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife he is always proud of himself as the source of it. – Samuel Johnson

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There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness and death. – Fran Lebowitz

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A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother’s love endures through all. – Washington Irving

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In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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My moms a Catholic, and my dads a Jew, and they didnt want anything to do with anything. – Isabelle Huppert

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