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The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century.
A widespread belief is more often likely to be foolish than sensible.
I am paid by the word, so I always write the shortest words possible.
All the evolution we know of proceeds from the vague to the definite.
Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it.
It is man that makes truth great, and not truth that makes man great.
They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.
Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.
Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star.
Three things cannot long be hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.
Consideration for others is the basis of a good life, a good society.
A workman who wants to do his work well must first prepare his tools.
The superior man loves his soul; the inferior man loves his property.
A man who does not forget an agreement is resolved and honorable man.
When people are educated, the distinction between classes disappears.
If you don't know how to serve men, why worry about serving the gods?
Grieve not that men do not know you; grieve that you do not know men.
The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots.
When you place a high value on truth, you have to think for yourself.
I'm a bluesman, which means that I put an emphasis on the minor keys.
We are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God.
It's a wonderful thing to do an inductive study with our concordance.
Anticipation of pleasure is, in itself, a very considerable pleasure.
Rousseau was mad but influential; Hume was sane but had no followers.
If you’re trying to prove your heart is in the right place, it isn’t.
No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
Even if I am but a pretender to wisdom, that in itself is philosophy.
Ignorance plays the chief part among men, and the multitude of words.
Plato was continually saying to Xenocrates, "Sacrifice to the Graces.
Socrates said, "Those who want fewest things are nearest to the gods.
In the mundane, nothing is sacred. In sacredness, nothing is mundane.
Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.
The nation... doesn't simply need what we have. It needs what we are.
We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.
The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.
It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.
Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership.
We are unified both by hating in common and by being hated in common.
Lack of sensitivity is perhaps basically an unawareness of ourselves.
I am a humble adherent of...Enlightenment Rationalist Fundamentalism.
When the risk of failure is too high, the right choice is to forbear.
Since it [architecture] is music in space, as it were a frozen music.
Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.
If you want to love you must serve, if you want freedom you must die.
Evil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself.
We learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help.
The courage of the truth is the first condition of philosophic study.