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“All genuine ideals have one thing in common: they express the desire for something which is not yet accomplished but which is desirable for the purpose of the growth and happiness of the individual.”

Desire Purpose Individual Growth Common One Thing Ideals Genuine Accomplished Desirable

Book:Escape from Freedom

Source: Escape from Freedom

“Human beings were not well served by permanence or stasis. Obviously, if individuals were progressing, they were undergoing a series of presumably desirable alterations, but in a universe where flux is fundamental, it can be argued that even change for the worse is preferable to no change at all. Isn't fixity the hallmark of the living dead?.”

Ifs Humans Wells Universe Individual Human Beings Progress Evolution Fundamentals Series Desirable Permanence Hallmark Flux Alterations Stasis

Book:Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates

Source: Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates

“The Free Exercise Clause protects the individual from any coercive measure that encourages him toward one faith or creed, discourages him from another, or makes it prudent or desirable for him to select one and embrace it.”

Individual Atheism Exercise Protect Embrace Positive Atheism Creeds Desirable Select Discouraging Prudent Clauses

Author:William O. Douglas

“How very sad it is to have a confiding nature, one's hopes and feelings are quite at the mercy of all who come along; and how very desirable to be a stolid individual, whose hopes and aspirations are safe in one's waistcoat pocket, and that a pocket indeed, and one not to be picked!”

Feelings Individual Safe Mercy Aspiration Pockets Desirable Discretion Very Sad Confiding

Book:The Letters of Emily Dickinson

Source: The Letters of Emily Dickinson

“There exists no third principle for the organisation of the economics process which can be rationally chosen to achieve any desirable ends, in addition to either a functioning market in which nobody can conclusively determine how well-off particular groups or individuals will be, or a central direction where a group organised for power determines it.”

Wells Ends Individual Process Principles Groups Achieve Particular Economics Thirds Determine Chosen Desirable Organisation Organised

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek