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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
Man's nature, originally good and common to all, should develop unhampered.
No man ever made a great discovery without the exercise of the imagination.
There are many justifications of silence; there can be none of insincerity.
Ideas are forces; our acceptance of one determines our reception of others.
Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
Guard you thoughts as you would your wallet. Habit is stronger than reason.
What is false in the science of facts may be true in the science of values.
The self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities
If you stop and confine yourself to one place, you will develop prejudices.
Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
A musical theme once exhausted, finds its due refuge and repose in silence.
[T]he habit of scientific analysis ... exhausts the material offered to it.
All men have the capacity of knowing themselves and acting with moderation.
God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.
Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
Morality knows nothing of geographical boundaries, or distinctions of race.
Every pleasure raises the tide of life; every pain lowers the tide of life.
Only when Genius is married to Science can the highest results be produced.
Happiness, though an indefinite concept, is the goal of all rational beings
Man must choose whether to be rich in things or in the freedom to use them.
The State shall make no law with respect to the establishment of education.
The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.
Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.
In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
The interaction of knowledge and skills with experience is key to learning.
I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
Liberty lies in the rights of that person whose views you find most odious.
Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
The heart of man does not tolerate an absence of the excellent and supreme.
All we are given is possibilities — to make ourselves one thing or another.
The final causes, then, of compassion are to prevent and to relieve misery.
What a miserable world!--trouble if we love, and trouble if we do not love.
The concept of number is the obvious distinction between the beast and man.
Genius is a grace. The true man of genius acts by movement or by impulsion.
The more of himself man attributes to God, the less he has left in himself.
Kind words elicit trust. Kind thoughts create depth. Kind deeds bring love.
Try to change it and you will ruin it. Try to hold it and you will lose it.
Those who defeat others are strong, those who defeat themselves are mighty.
The heavy is the root of the light. The tranquil is the ruler of the hasty.
To conquer others is to have power, to conquer yourself is to know the way.
The Way is hidden and nameless. Still only the Way nourishes and completes.
Abandon cleverness, discard profit, and thieves and robbers will disappear.
To know others is to have knowledge. To know yourself is to be enlightened.
Only I am clumsy, like drifting on the waves of the sea, without direction.
Each man must reach his own verdict, by weighing all the relevant evidence.
Philosophy is, in the last instance, class struggle in the field of theory.
Breathing, according to me, corresponds to taking charge of one's own life.
Ohne Phosphor, Kein Gedanke. Without phosphorus there would be no thoughts.