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Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.
Since barbarism has its pleasures it naturally has its apologists.
Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.
Repetition is the only form of permanence that Nature can achieve.
Man has an inexhuastible faculty for lying, especially to himself.
The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.
A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world.
It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.
Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.
Reason in my philosophy is only a harmony among irrational impulses.
Our occasional madness is less wonderful than our occasional sanity.
Wisdom lies in taking everything with good humor and a grain of salt.
History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.
America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences.
Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.
I like to walk about amidst the beautiful things that adorn the world.
Eloquence is a republican art, as conversation is an aristocratic one.
Philosophers are as jealous as women; each wants a monopoly of praise.
The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.
For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.
Reason and happiness are like other flowers; they wither when plucked.
Work and love these are the basics; waking life is a dream controlled.
The one who does not remember history is bound to live through it again
Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.
Better not be a hero than work oneself up into heroism by shouting lies.
A way foolishness has of revenging itself is to excommunicate the world.
People never believe in volcanoes until the lava actually overtakes them.
The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend.
The aim of education is the condition of suspended judgment on everything.
One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.
Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.
What is false in the science of facts may be true in the science of values.
Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
Guard you thoughts as you would your wallet. Habit is stronger than reason.
Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.
It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.
To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
The works of nature first acquire a meaning in the commentaries they provoke.
For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.
The soul, too has her virginity and must bleed a little before bearing fruit.
To drink in the spirit of a place you should be not only alone but unhurried.
It takes a wonderful brain and exquisite senses to produce a few stupid ideas.
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.
There is no greater stupidity or meanness than to take uniformity for an ideal.
The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it.