If the individual is to be happy in the contemporary order, he must be open-minded with respect to new values and new arrangements.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It is increasingly important to be open-minded.
To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism.
Among those who are satisfactory in this respect it is desirable to have represented as great a diversity of intellectual tradition, social milieu and personal character as possible.
Man is most happy, when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue.
People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones.
Every man must have the right fearlessly to think independently and express his opinion about what he knows, what he has personally thought about and experienced, and not merely to express with slightly different variations the opinion which has been inculcated in him.
The necessary thing for anyone to be happy and contented as long as he lives is working for the ones who will come after him rather than working for himself... One can reach the true delight and happiness in the life only by working for the existence, honor, and happiness of the future generations.
A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.
Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
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