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Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties.
The origin of thinking is some perplexity, confusion or doubt.
Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
Men do not desire to be rich, but to be richer than other men.
All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.
It is better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a pig satisfied.
God is a word to express, not our ideas, but the want of them.
The choice of a point of view is the initial act of a culture.
There is no philosophy without the art of ignoring objections.
The task is not just to understand the world but to change it.
Definitions.... are never really needed, and rarely of any use
When you let go of what you are, you become what you might be.
The most difficult in the world must be easy in its beginning.
There is no greater danger than underestimating your opponent.
Success is as dangerous as failure. Hope is as hollow as fear.
Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.
Knowing ignorance is strength; ignoring knowledge is sickness.
When you are one with loss, the loss is experienced willingly.
Purity and stillness give the correct law to all under heaven.
Act non-action; undertake no undertaking; taste the tasteless.
When equal armies battle, the grieving one will be victorious.
Can you love or guide someone without any kind of expectation?
Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.
Philosophy limits the thinkable and therefore the unthinkable.
Your enemies can kill you, but only your friends can hurt you.
The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.
That which is not forbidden, is not on that account permitted.
The law is silent during war. [Lat., Silent leges inter arma.]
The name of peace is sweet, the thing itself is most salutary.
He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.
The primary and most beautiful of nature's qualities is motion
Everyone has in him something precious that is in no one else.
Nothing is everything that doesn't happen at this very moment.
truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.
Whoever is a complete person does not need to be an authority.
.... all blades of grass, wood, and stone, all things are One.
The way things are does not determine the way they ought to be
Love wishes to perpetuate itself. Love wishes for immortality.
Revealed religion is one thing, revealed legislation, another.
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
Time is the product of changing realities, beings, existences.
Men endured so much for war, but for peace they dared nothing.
Every Socialist outbreak only blazes new paths for Capitalism.
Fearlessness is a result of faith in oneself and faith in God.
Only he who accepts clashes and conflicts in life, loves life.
Only the philosophical question is perennial, not the answers.
The first key to wisdom is assiduous and frequent questioning.
More often there's a compromise between ethics and expediency.
God is inexhaustibly attainable in the totality of our action.