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Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
We are but one of the multitude, in no respect better than any other in it.
We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree.
The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
To be free from convention is not to spurn it but not to be deceived by it.
Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.
Common sense is not really so common. The Art of Thinking: Port-Royal Logic
All the earth is mine, and I have a right to go all over it and through it.
The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
He who sees things grow from the beginning will have the best view of them.
If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development
The worst thing about slavery is that the slaves eventually get to like it.
One thing alone not even God can do,To make undone whatever hath been done.
Happiness is a certain activity of soul in conformity with perfect goodness
Education and morals make the good man, the good statesman, the good ruler.
In order to be effective you need not only virtue but also mental strength.
Sophocles said he drew men as they ought to be, and Euripides as they were.
Man first begins to philosophize when the necessities of life are supplied.
A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.
The appropriate age for marrige is around eighteen and thirty-seven for man
All wanting comes from need, therefore from lack, therefore from suffering.
A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is.
The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.
Belief systems provide a programme which relieves the necessity of thought.
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
Orthodoxy is the grave of intelligence, no matter what orthodoxy it may be.
There can't be a practical reason for believing something that is not true.
It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family.
The Man who says he can, and the man who says he can not.. Are both correct
Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
Who keeps the old akindle and adds new knowledge is fitted to be a teacher.
Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.
The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.
Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand.
Affirmative action is something that I think is very crucial and necessary.
To withhold our bodies from religion is to exclude religion from our lives.
Not a single one of the cells that compose you knows who you are, or cares.
I never asserted such an absurd thing as that things arise without a cause.
Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.
The woman's soul is fashioned as a shelter in which other souls may unfold.
It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.
It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything.
The space of play and the space of thought are the two theaters of freedom.
If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?