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Thought is not a gift to man but a laborious, precarious and volatile acquisition.
In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others.
The alienation of man thus appeared as the fundamental evil of capitalist society.
The proletarians have nothing to loose but their chains. They have a world to win.
In reality, the labourer belongs to capital before he has sold himself to capital.
A good person is the bad person's teacher. A bad person is the good person's task.
Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation.
I will be fond of keeping still, and the people will of themselves become correct.
Those who advice the ruler on the Way, do not want the world subdued with weapons.
Unemployment doles can have no other effect than the perpetuation of unemployment.
The world of those who are happy is different from the world of those who are not.
Your purpose...should always be to know...the whole that was intended to be known.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.
Do not hold the delusion that your advancement is accomplished by crushing others.
The Intellect engages us in the pursuit of Truth. The Passions impel us to Action.
In a promise, what you thought, and not what you said, is always to be considered.
No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.
He has no other recommendation, save an assumed and crafty solemnity of demeanour.
Photography turns people into things and their image into a mass consumer product.
The method of our time is to use not a single but multiple models for exploration.
To him who knows how to read the legend, it conveys more truth than the chronicle.
The body is to be compared, not to a physical object, but rather to a work of art.
People should not worry so much about what they do but rather about what they are.
There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.
The God Delusion makes me embarrassed to be an atheist, and the McGraths show why.
Death is a false fear. When it is here, you won't be. When it's not, you are here.
Again, both literature and philosophy work by appealing to certain reigning idols.
If one cannot live the life of the brave, then it is better to die like the brave.
Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
Everything that possesses life dies if it has to live in uncongenial surroundings.
Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
Prejudices are not easily got rid of as an old coat which is no longer thought of.
Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one.
Oh! My beloved! fill the cup, that clears to-day of past regrets and future fears.
You know how little while we have to stay, And, once departed, may return no more.
Better be jocund with the fruitful Grape Than sadden after none, or bitter, Fruit.
Logic and ethics are fundamentally the same, they are no more than duty to oneself
Accept the fact that you are accepted, despite the fact that you are unacceptable.
If you do not fling old ideas out of your mind, you cannot give birth to new ones.
Reach beyond your grasp. Your goals should be grand enough to get the best of you.
Seek truth while you are young, for if you do not, it will later escape your grasp
If you are wise, all men will be your friends and kindred, for you will be useful.
Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.
Nothing more excellent or valuable than wine was every granted by the gods to man.
The soul is like a pair of winged horses and a charioteer joined in natural union.
We do not learn, and that what we call learning is only a process of recollection.
The productions of all arts are kinds of poetry and their craftsmen are all poets.
There still remain three studies suitable for free man. Arithmetic is one of them.