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We are human beings, beings whose fundamental food is the experience of truth.
Everything is arranged so that it be this way, this is what is called culture.
What is required of a working hypothesis is a fine capacity for discrimination
All kinds of frankness and honesty are terrible crimes in the eyes of society.
Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.
I hate books; they only teach people to talk about what they don't understand.
One may live tranquilly in a dungeon; but does life consist in living quietly?
Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.
Several hours or several years make no difference once you have lost eternity.
The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.
Il n'y a de réalité que dans l'action. (There is no reality except in action.)
Who wins a... competition [between two traits] is massively context sensitive.
Selection aims not only at simplifying but at weeding out what is undesirable.
Everyone who receives the protection of society owes a return for the benefit.
Private confession was not ordered by Christ and was not used by the apostles.
The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.
The traditions of the dead generations weigh like a nightmare upon the living.
True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.
We have become makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
The sage has no concern for himself, but makes the concerns of others his own.
For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.
Failure is the foundation of success: success is the lurking place of failure.
Knowing the bright, but clinging to the dark, you become a model to the world.
The more laws and orders are multiplied, the more theft and violence increase.
Throw away sacredness and wisdom and people will be one hundred times happier.
Deal with it before it happens. Set things in order before there is confusion.
Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.
The mark of the creative mind is that it defies a part of what it has learned.
All present-day governments are fanatically committed to an easy money policy.
What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.
Sometimes, in doing philosophy, one just wants to utter an inarticulate sound.
No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means.
He removes the greatest ornament of friendship who takes away from it respect.
Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.
The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.
A life of peace, purity and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.
In the conduct of almost every affair slowness and procrastination are hateful
There has never been a poet or orator who thought another better than himself.
Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.
Innovation for holders of conventional wisdom is not novelty but annihilation.
Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language.
Our bodily food is changed into us, but our spiritual food changes us into it.
Voyaging begins when one burns one's boats, adventures begin with a shipwreck.
The intellect of two thousand asses cannot bring forth a single man's thought.
The most Superior amongst the colors in the universe is the color of Devotion.
I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.
The principles of ethics come from our own nature as social, reasoning beings.
When you feel grateful, you become great, and eventually attract great things.