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Not to know what happened before one was born is always to be a child.
Because all the sick do not recover, therefore medicine is not an art.
Moral indignation is a technique used to endow the idiot with dignity.
The winner is one who knows when to drop out in order to get in touch.
Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning.
We can learn to be whole by saying what we mean and doing what we say.
A man's first bond is that which ties him into the national community.
The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism.
When a man sees the one in all things, he is above mere understanding.
We Germans are the most universal, the most European people of Europe.
The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.
It is a mistake to assume that the law should always enforce morality.
The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
Access to power must be confined to those who are not in love with it.
The wise man will want to be ever with him who is better than himself.
I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
[M]ere knowledge of the truth will not give you the art of persuasion.
I do not think it is permitted that a better man be harmed by a worse.
The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
Nihilism is not an existential quandary but a speculative opportunity.
Love starts when we push aside our ego and make room for someone else.
For the uniqueness of man lies in his capacity for self-transcendence.
If you don't know what port you are sailing to, no wind is favourable.
That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.
The greatest power of ruling consists in the exercise of self-control.
Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
The wise man lives as long as he should, not just as long as he likes.
Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat.
It's bad if we are controlled, but if we're not, it can be even worse.
The force of universalism is in you Basques, not in the Spanish state.
Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
I am a fool, but I know I'm a fool and that makes me smarter than you.
No man has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training
YOU ARE NOT ONLY GOOD TO YOURSELF, BUT THE CAUSE OF GOODNESS IN OTHERS
The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.
A God who cannot smile, could not have created this humorous universe.
It is not the right advice that liberates, but the action based on it.
The technicalities matter a lot, but the unifying vision matters more.
If a man was great while living, he becomes tenfold greater when dead.
For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing.
Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.
Every noble crown is, and on Earth will forever be, a crown of thorns.
Money will buy money's worth; but the thing men call fame, what is it?
No good book, or good thing of any sort, shows its best face at first.
The first cause of Absurd conclusions I ascribe to the want of Method.
Setting themselves against reason, as often as reason is against them.
Different development itself runs the threat of making life shapeless.