The Law of Mind (1892)
“Fourth, this supreme law, which is celestial and living harmony, does not so much as demand that the special ideas shall surrender their peculiar arbitrariness and caprice entirely; for that would be self-destructive. It only requires that they influence and be influenced by one another.”
The Law of Mind (1892)
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Source: Liberalism (1911), Chapter II, The Elements of Liberalism, p. 16.
To Mother Mary, Superior General, Ruille-sur-Loir, 1852-02-18.
Context: ... they wish to make us pay taxes, which is contrary to the laws of the State. We refuse positively. It embarrasses them a little to have women resist them and speak to them about the law. Woman in this country is only yet one fourth of the family. I hope that, through the influence of religion and education, she will eventually become at least one half the "better half."
1920s, The Aims of Education (1929)
Quoted in Mercure de France, I-XII (1953), trans. Jeannette H. Foster (1977)
“One does not like to differ from a man without knowing the reasons which influenced him.”
Ex parte Strawbridge; In re Hickman (1883), L. R. 25 C. D. 276.
As quoted in Faith in Freedom : Libertarian Principles and Psychiatric Practices (2004) by Thomas Stephen Szasz, p. 10. Selected Writings of Lord Acton, ed. J. Rufus Fears, 3 vols. (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1985-88), 3:490
“Influence without control is a weapon of mass destruction.”
No one can, in case of affairs, abandon the conviction that the future is co-determined by his transactions.
Antimonies
Gesammelte Mathematische Werke (1876)