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Bertrand Russell
: Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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People think I'm eccentric, cranky. If I'm eccentric because I've never been into mainstream things, then I am eccentric.
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Edward G Bulwer-Lytton :
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The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.
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The English like eccentrics. They just don't like them living next door.
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George Santayana :
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England is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, anomalies, hobbies, and humors.
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John Stuart Mill :
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The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.
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John Stuart Mill :
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Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage which it contained.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe :
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People of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their abilities.
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Garrison Keillor :
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“Librarians, Dusty, possess a vast store of politeness. These are people who get asked regularly the dumbest questions on God's green earth. These people tolerate every kind of crank and eccentric and mouth-breather there is.”
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Hermann Hesse :
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Haller’s sickness of soul, as I now know, is not the eccentricity of a single individual, but the sickness of the times themselves, the neurosis of that generation to which Haller belongs, a sickness, it seems, that by no means attacks the weak and worthless only but rather those who are strongest in spirit and richest in gifts
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Nicolas Chamfort :
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There are certain times when public opinion is the worst of all opinions.
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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
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The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent full of doubt.
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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.
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One of the signs of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
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Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.
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