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Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
It is wise to listen, not to me but to the Word, and to confess that all things are one.
The world is nothing but a great desire to live and a great dissatisfaction with living.
Religion has been compelled by science to give up one after another of its dogmas. . . .
Life is not for learning nor is life for working, but learning and working are for life.
My creed is LOVE; Wherever its caravan turns along the way, That is my belief, My faith.
When people help one another in sin and transgression, they finish by hating each other.
The more humble, needy, and subdued you are before Allah, the closer you will be to Him.
Physicians think they are doing something for you by labeling what you have as a disease
Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.
We are born for meaning, not pleasure, unless it is pleasure that is steeped in meaning.
The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think.
It is in love with its limitless horizontality, as New York may be with its verticality.
Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
That man is truly free who desires what he is able to perform, and does what he desires.
Generally we obtain very surely and very speedily what we are not too anxious to obtain.
Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.
Intellectuals cannot be good revolutionaries; they are just good enough to be assassins.
Besides one should not believe that the people only want reading that is easy to absorb.
Pleasure is in itself a good; nay, even setting aside immunity from pain, the only good.
Thus the public use of reason and freedom is nothing but a dessert, a sumptuous dessert.
A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.
The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.
You hear that liberalism lacks an idea of the common good, but I think that's a mistake.
Ideally a just constitution would be a just procedure arranged to insure a just outcome.
Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war but on the love of peace.
It is in this sense that Franklin says, "war is robbery, commerce is generally cheating.
In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases.
Be aware that the reward for labour, and quantity of labour, are quite disparate things.
The circulation of commodities is the original precondition of the circulation of money.
If you can't say it simply and clearly, keep quiet, and keep working on it till you can.
Those who would take over the earth and shape it to their will, never, I notice succeed.
I let go of all desire for the common good, and the good becomes as common as the grass.
Act without striving. Work without interfering. Find the flavour in what is flavourless.
The Way begets one; one begets two; two begets three; three begets the myriad creatures.
The feminine values are the fountain of bliss. Know the masculine, Keep to the feminine.
Deal with difficult tasks while they are easy. Act on large issues while they are small.
Clay is used to make vases, but it is the emptiness they contain that makes them useful.
I do not know its name. I call it the Way. For the lack of better words I call it great.
We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move.
Climate change is the Everest of all problems, the thorniest challenge facing humankind.
Such a deep silence surrounds me, that I think I hear moonbeams striking on the windows.
The market economy as such does not respect political frontiers. Its field is the world.
Fascism was an emergency makeshift. To view it as something more would be a fatal error.
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
If in life we are surrounded by death, so too in the health of our intellect by madness.
Every one is least known to himself, and it is very difficult for a man to know himself.
When money is unreasonably coveted, it is a disease of the mind which is called avarice.
We were born to unite with our fellow men, and to join in community with the human race.
Justice extorts no reward, no kind of price; she is sought, therefore, for her own sake.