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“The creation of freedom for oneself and a sacred "No" even to duty -- for that, my brothers, the lion is needed.”

Creation Brother Duty Needed Sacred Oneself My Brother Lions

Book:The Portable Nietzsche

Source: The Portable Nietzsche

“I would define, in brief, the Poetry of words as the Rhythmical Creation of Beauty. Its sole arbiter is taste. With the intellect or with the conscience, it has only collateral relations. Unless incidentally, it has no concern whatever either with duty or with truth.”

Creation Duty Taste Conscience Concern Relation Intellect Sole Arbiter Collateral

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)

“For if animals are God's creatures, we have no absolute rights over them, only the duty to look after them as God would look after them. To stand with Jesus is to reject our view of ourselves as gods and lords of creation. We are to honor life for the sake of the Lord of life.”

Ifs Looks Jesus Animal Views Lord Rights Creation Duty Honor Creatures Absolutes Sake Rejects

Book:Animal Gospel

Source: Animal Gospel

“No government has the right to decide on the truth of scientific principles, nor to prescribe in any way the character of the questions investigated. Neither may a government determine the aesthetic value of artistic creations, nor limit the forms of literacy or artistic expression. Nor should it pronounce on the validity of economic, historic, religious, or philosophical doctrines. Instead it has a duty to its citizens to maintain the freedom, to let those citizens contribute to the further adventure and the development of the human race.”

“It is man's social nature which distinguishes him from the brute creation. If it is his privilege to be independent, it is equally his duty to be inter-dependent. Only an arrogant man will claim to be independent of everybody else and be self-contained.”

Ifs Men Inspirational Self Social Creation Duty Claims Independent Privilege Dependent Arrogant Brutes Insperational Self Contained

Book:Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi

Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi