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You are mature when you know what is foolhardy and what is courage.
The key to happiness is accepting one unpleasant reality every day.
More cranks take up unfashionable errors than unfashionable truths.
Philosophy is an unusually ingenious attempt to think fallaciously.
Good slaves are free, but bad free men are slaves of many passions.
It is... easy to be certain. One has only to be sufficiently vague.
The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials.
Those whose courses are different cannot lay plans for one another.
Those who do not study are only cattle dressed up in men's clothes.
Writing cannot express all words, words cannot encompass all ideas.
Transport a handful of earth everyday and you will make a mountain.
It is only the very wisest and the very stupidest who never change.
If either wealth or poverty are come by honesty, there is no shame.
The powerful have no monopoly on greed, hatred, fear, or ignorance.
The most lively thought is still inferior to the dullest sensation.
It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.
Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.
That man does not possess his estate, but his estate possesses him.
It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
The world leans on us. When we sag, the whole world seems to droop.
Craving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of oneself.
Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
All that is real is reasonable, and all that is reasonable is real.
Faith goes out through the window when beauty comes in at the door.
The history of the race is but that of the individual "writ large".
Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.
Myths often do a lot of theoretical good, while they are still new.
Reading something from beginning to end. That is reading with love.
Thinking does not lead to truth; truth is the beginning of thought.
Violence can destroy power; it is utterly incapable of creating it.
These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties.
Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
There is no curing a sick man who believes himself to be in health.
Because it is so unbelievable, the Truth often escapes being known.
Wisdom is the oneness of mind that guides and permeated all things.
It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
The Cosmos was not made by gods but always was and is eternal fire.
The saying that beauty is but skin deep, is but a skin-deep saying.
This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest.
How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?
It is through good education that all the good in the world arises.
The human heart refuses To believe in a universe Without a purpose.
Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.
Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.
Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected.
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
There are no free lunches in philosophy any more than in real life.
The desert is a natural extension of the inner silence of the body.