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Humility is not renunciation of pride but the substitution of one pride for another.
There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his.
The Renaissance was a time of mercenary soldiers, ours is a time of mercenary labor.
History is the only laboratory we have in which to test the consequences of thought.
Experiences of the first order, of the first rank, are not realized through the eye.
A political theory seeks to find from history the limits of the politically possible
Liberalism can only be defined negatively. It is a mere critique, not a living idea.
Good politicians need not be intellectuals, but they should have intellectual lives.
Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
Wandering, (is) considered as a state of detachment form every given point in space.
I am free in performing an action if I could have done otherwise if I had chosen to.
No very sharp line can be drawn between social psychology and individual psychology.
To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.
A dream is always simmering below the conventional surface of speech and reflection.
The theater, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history.
If the first button of one's coat is wrongly buttoned, all the rest will be crooked.
In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
With the rise of Christianity, faith replaced thought as the bringer of immortality.
The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that's laughable is vanity.
Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.
Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion.
Lifetime is a child at play, moving pieces in a game. Kingship belongs to the child.
The most important attribute of man as a moral being is the faculty of self-control.
Originally, ethics has no existence apart from religion, which holds it in solution.
The first lesson of evolution was one of conflict. The lesson now is one of kinship.
In every generation, there are quite firm rules on how to behave when you are crazy.
Every human being is called to solidarity in a world battling between life and death
Nature even in chaos cannot proceed otherwise than regularly and according to order.
The existence of the Bible is the greatest blessing which humanity ever experienced.
Every human being should always be treated as an end and never as a mere instrument.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.
The fact of knowing how to read is nothing, the whole point is knowing what to read.
There is room neither for the poet nor for the contemplator in an egalitarian world.
Every human being is a mixture of light and darkness, trust and fear, love and hate.
Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
Many men, seemingly impelled by fortune, hasten forward to meet misfortune half way.
Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once.
Ah! How I hate the crimes of the new generation: they are dry and sterile as darnel.
There is no pestilence in a state like a zeal for religion, independent of morality.
Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
Success in fighting means not coming at your opponent the way he wants to fight you.
You do not understand your own tradition if you do not see it in relation to others.
Was there ever any domination that did not appear natural to those who possessed it?
If you can cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded.
There is only one effective antidote for mental suffering and that is physical pain.
While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.