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thinking beings have an urge to speak, speaking beings have an urge to think.
Time and space are fragments of the infinite for the use of finite creatures.
A man only understands what is akin to something already existing in himself.
As nice as we are in love, we forgive more faults in that than in friendship.
An infallible way to make your child miserable is to satisfy all his demands.
Men who love wisdom should acquaint themselves with a great many particulars.
Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
Time: That which man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art.
Do not try to produce an ideal child, it would find no fitness in this world.
Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
If I am to constrain you by any law, it must be one by which I am also bound.
Philosophy which asserts that human experience repeats itself is ineffectual.
We are no longer dealing with historical events, but with places of collapse.
Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
Wisdom is something that comes, little by little, through a lot of listening.
Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts.
You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.
If you seek authenticity for authenticity's sake you are no longer authentic.
To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe.
I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
Atheism is a cruel long term business, and I have gone through it to the end.
In Guinea I could read [Franz] Kafka. I re-discover in him my own discomfort.
If Christianity needed an Anti-Christ, they needed look no farther than Paul.
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.
Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife.
The past will not tell us what we ought to do, but... what we ought to avoid.
Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.
Crack-brained meddling by the authorities [can] aggravate an existing crisis.
Capital brings forth living offspring, or at the least, lays the golden eggs.
Nature's way is simple and easy, but men prefer the intricate and artificial.
Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.
The value comes from what is there, but the use comes from what is not there.
We hammer wood for a house, but it is the inner space that makes it liveable.
The one who can dissolve her mind will suddenly discover the Tao at her feet.
The sage never strives for greatness, and can therefore accomplish greatness.
Abandon benevolence, discard duty, and people will return to the family ties.
Use the Light that dwells within you to regain your natural clarity of sight.
What man has more than enough and gives it to the world? Only the man of Tao.
Virtue in its grandest aspect is neither more nor less than following reason.
Keeping plenty of gold and jade in the palace makes no one able to defend it.
Although he travels all day, the sage never loses sight of his luggage carts.
He (the sage) wants all things to follow their own nature, but dares not act.
If God is One, and if there can be no other God, there can be no idea of God.
In capitalist enterprise there is no secure income and no security of wealth.
The solution to the problem of life is seen in the vanishing of this problem.
The subject does not belong to the world; rather, it is a limit of the world.
To be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches.
In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men.