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The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.
Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.
Columbus found a world, and had no chart save one that Faith deciphered in the skies.
Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.
Philosophers are very severe towards other philosophers because they expect too much.
With an artist no sane man quarrels, any more than with the colour of a child's eyes.
Manhood and sagacity ripen of themselves; it suffices not to repress or distort them.
Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?
The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists is Real.
Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
For politics is not like the nursery; in politics obedience and support are the same.
The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity.
To be always ready a man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied.
Even a soul submerged in sleep is hard at work and helps make something of the world.
It is weariness to keep toiling at the same things so that one becomes ruled by them.
Men who are lovers of wisdom [i.e., philosophers] must be inquirers into many things.
The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it - and sometimes three.
God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man.
Each according to his own way of seeing things, seek one goal, that is gratification.
Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague.
Prayer holds together the shattered fragments of creation. It makes history possible.
Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives.
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.
Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.
That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
it was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else.
Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
Each undervalues that part of the materials of thought with which he is not familiar.
The most important thing women have to do is to stir up the zeal of women themselves.
Let's face it. We're undone by each other. And if we're not, we're missing something.
I want my arguments to be good arguments on the basis of what I actually have to say.
Neither pleasure nor pain should enter as motives when one must do what must be done.
The working men have no country. We cannot take away from them what they have not got
Although gold and silver are not by nature money, money is by nature gold and silver.
I may be wrong and you may be right, and by an effort, we may get nearer to the truth
The river and the sea can be kings of a hundred valleys, because they lie below them.
If one desires to receive one must first give. This is called profound understanding.
Hold on to the ancient Way to master the present, and to learn the distant beginning.
I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.
Profound virtue is indeed deep and wide. It leads all things back to the great order.
The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.
If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.
What should we gain by a definition, as it can only lead us to other undefined terms?
There are eight rungs in charity. The highest is when you help a man to help himself.
Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.
Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
I hear Socrates saying that the best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst.
Nature has granted the use of life like a loan, without fixing any day for repayment.
Persistence in a single view has never been regarded as a merit in political leaders.