Oscar Wilde Quotes About Growth
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The final mystery is oneself.
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Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art.
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Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.
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[T]he recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses. It has led Individualism entirely astray. It has made gain, not growth its aim. So that man thought that the important thing is to have, and did not know that the important thing is to be.
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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
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The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
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The essence of thought, as the essence of life, is growth.
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Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art. ...because of the importance it places on the individual, their liberty, self-expression, creativity, and personal responsibility.
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The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not its growth and development.
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To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.
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The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not on its growth and development. The error of Louis XIV was that he thought human nature would always be the same. The result of his error was the French Revolution. It was an admirable result.
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