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The need for growth, for development, for change, is fundamental to life.
Things gain meaning by being used in a shared experience or joint action.
Truth, like gold, is not less so for being newly brought out of the mine.
How do we get from electrons to elections and from protons to presidents?
To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.
That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time.
All Christian life is to be measured by Scripture; by every word thereof.
Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.
It is no use speaking in soft, gentle tones if everyone else is shouting.
Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.
Last words are for those fools who believe they have not yet said enough.
Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.
It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.
It can't happen here is always wrong: a dictatorship can happen anywhere.
The real art of governing consists, so far as possible, in doing nothing.
Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.
If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never be truly fulfilled.
Because he (the Sage) opposes no one, no one in the world can oppose him.
The sage does not attempt anything very big, and thus achieves greatness.
Abandon wisdom, discard knowledge, and people will benefit a hundredfold.
Good men are bad men's instructors, And bad men are good men's materials.
On the one hand, loss implies gain; on the other hand, gain implies loss.
What Heaven detests, who knows why? Even the sage considers it difficult.
Since before time and space were, the Tao is. It is beyond is and is not.
Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.
Kindness in thinking creates profundity. Kindness in giving creates love.
Rule a kingdom as though you were cooking a small fish - don't overdo it.
Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.
All mystics speak the same language, for they come from the same country.
The market economy-capitalism-is a social system of consumers' supremacy.
At eighty-eight how do you feel when getting up in the morning?...Amazed!
One is unable to notice something because it is always before one's eyes.
Concerning that which cannot be talked about, we should not say anything.
If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.
We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always.
There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.
Inhumanity is harmful in every age. - Inhumanitas omni aetate molesta est
The more peculiarly his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.
One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants.
In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us.
All discoveries in art and science result from an accumulation of errors.
Nothing is inevitable if we are willing to contemplate what is happening.
The new media are not bridges between man and nature - they are nature...
At electric speed, all forms are pushed to the limits of their potential.
We still by no means think decisively enough about the essence of action.
...a metaphor that works in one society may seem preposterous in another.
The State calls its own violence, law; but that of the individual, crime.
Whoever knows how to take, to defend, the thing, to him belongs property.
Our best chance of finding God is to look in the place where we left him.