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I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform.
Education, in its broadest sense, is the means of this social continuity of life.
...the moment of passage from disturbance into harmony is that of intensest life.
Choice is the declaration by self that a certain ideal of self shall be realized.
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature
Our Business here is not to know all things, but those which concern our conduct.
It is of first importance that the military be subordinate to civilian government
We may suppose that everyone has in himself the whole form of a moral conception.
The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine.
A person's taste is as much his own peculiar concern as his opinion or his purse.
This Bible is for the government of the people, by the people and for the people.
Private confession... was not ordered by Christ and was not used by the apostles.
I am myself and what is around me, and if I do not save it, it shall not save me.
Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.
The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
If the labourer consumes his disposable time for himself, he robs the capitalist.
The consciousness of the past weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.
Those who understand others are clever, those who understand themselves are wise.
Be empty. Be still. Just watch everything come and go. This is the way of Nature.
For all things difficult to acquire, the intelligent man works with perseverance.
The superior leader keeps informed about everything but interferes hardly at all.
To be learned, add something each day. To be enlightened drop something each day.
The more sharp weapons people have in a country, the bigger the disorder will be.
Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.
Those who know it do not speak about it. Those who speak about it do not know it.
The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.
Whoever is capable of knowing when they have had enough will always be satisfied.
Mask your brightness. Be at one with the dust of the earth. This is primal union.
Do not attempt to conquer the world with force, for force only causes resistance.
I alone am different from the others, because I am nourished by the great mother.
To save the world is the simplest thing in the world. All one has to do is think.
If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.
Man's obsession to add to his wealth and honor is the chief source of his misery.
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.
It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good.
It shows a weak mind not to bear prosperity as well as adversity with moderation.
Long life is denied us; therefore let us do something to show that we have lived.
Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.
It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.
In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.
The judgment of posterity is truer, because it is free from envy and malevolence.
I like myself, but I won't say I'm as handsome as the bull that kidnapped Europa.
Don't ask whether it is right or wrong. Instead try to find out what is going on.
I've always been careful never to predict anything that had not already happened.
Education in a technological world of replaceable and expendable parts is neuter.
What is odious but . . . people . . . who toast their feet on the register. . . .
We should stake our whole existence on our willingness to explore and experience.
Everything is meant to be lost, that the soul may stand in unhampered nothingness