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Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
The essence of religion consists in the feeling of an absolute dependence.
Cities are, first of all, seats of the highest economic division of labor.
An individual piece only has meaning when it is seen as part of the whole.
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.
Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.
The aim of education is the condition of suspended judgment on everything.
Christianity is reasonable in virtue of the impossibility of the contrary.
Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.
To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.
A microscopic phantom of the universe; this is all that we are able to be.
Nothing more excites to everything noble and generous, than virtuous love.
Knowledge of divine things for the most part is lost to us by incredulity.
The best reaction to a paradox is to invent a genuinely new and deep idea.
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
Learning from programmed information always hides reality behind a screen.
The household became the place where the consumption of wages takes place.
At the heart of pornography is sexuality haunted by its own disappearance.
There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.
It is too early to love. We will buy the right to do so by shedding blood.
Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
The farther reason looks the greater is the haze in which it loses itself.
The roots of the deepest love die in the heart, if not tenderly cherished.
What sort of philosophy one chooses depends on what sort of person one is.
When one's ideas are not challenged, one's ability to defend them weakens.
Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economising
Men do not want solely the obedience of women, they want their sentiments.
I shall not die, but live; and again declare the evil deeds of the friars.
We live in an era with no real sense of community or connection to nature.
For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great.
Whether he be an original or a plagiarist, man is the novelist of himself.
Man has to live with the body and soul which have fallen to him by chance.
The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
When the sufferers learn to think, then the thinkers will learn to suffer.
Money is therefore not only the object but also the fountainhead of greed.
Value, therefore, does not stalk about with a label describing what it is.
Men make their own history but not in circumstances of their own choosing.
Wages are determined by the bitter struggle between capitalist and worker.
Exchange value forms the substance of money, and exchange value is wealth.
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
The wise leader settles for good work and then lets others have the floor.
Can you comprehend everything in the four directions and still do nothing?
The sage does not strive to be great. Thereby he can accomplish the great.
The truly great man dwells on what is real and not what is on the surface.
God is therefore unknowable. This is the fundamental premise of the Bible.