#iv

An honest money system is the only alternative. ↗

— Frederick Soddy

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A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true. ↗

— Socrates

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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean. ↗

— Socrates

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The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be. ↗

— Socrates

#greatest #honor #live #pretend #way

It is not living that matters, but living rightly. ↗

— Socrates

#matters #rightly

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny. ↗

— Socrates

#short-lived #tyranny

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live. ↗

— Socrates

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In the first place, the preparation of the Nobel lecture which I am to give has shown me, even more clearly than I knew before, how many others share with me, often, indeed, have anticipated me, in the discoveries for which you have awarded me the prize. ↗

— Frederick Soddy

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It is curious to reflect, for example, upon the remarkable legend of the Philosopher's Stone, one of the oldest and most universal beliefs, the origin of which, however far back we penetrate into the records of the past, we do not probably trace its real source. ↗

— Frederick Soddy

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Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of living of the people and upon their civilisation. ↗

— Frederick Soddy

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