Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.
Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.
What other significance can our existence have than to be ourselves fully and completely?
The fundamental criterion for judging any procedure is the justice of its likely results.
The fault of the utilitarian doctrine is that it mistakes impersonality for impartiality.
Eloquence is heard; poetry is overheard ... All poetry is of the nature of the soliloquy.
Indeed it may be only by risking the incoherence of identity that connection is possible.
We have to have a very strong criticism of modes of cooperation that entrench inequality.
Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
To become learned, each day add something. To become enlightened, each day drop something
Knowing that you do not know is the best. Not knowing that you do not know is an illness.
The nameless is the beginning of Heaven and Earth. The named is the mother of all things.
If I have just an ounce of sense, I follow the great Way, and fear only to stray from it.
Take [preventive] action before things happen. Establish order before disorder has begun.
Use your own light and return to the source of light. This is called practicing eternity.
Governing a large country is like frying a small fish. You spoil it with too much poking.
He who defends with love will be secure; Heaven will save him, and protect him with love.
Only by working within the laws that govern the flow of water will happiness be achieved.
Philosophizing means, then, to ascend from public dogma to essentially private knowledge.
Sovereignty must not be used for inflicting harm on anyone, whether citizen or foreigner.
Transparency painted in a picture produces its effect in a different way than opaqueness.
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue but the parent of all the other virtues.
A perverse temper and fretful disposition will make any state of life whatsoever unhappy.
Great is the power, great is the authority of a senate that is unanimous in its opinions.
In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.
For my own part, I had rather be old only a short time than be old before I really am so.
There is no being of any race who, if he finds the proper guide, cannot attain to virtue.
God strung up his own son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he would do to me.
A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.
People don't actually read newspapers - they get into them every morning like a hot bath.
Nowadays there is no conversation at all. Teachers distrust talk as much as business men.
The content or time-clothing of any medium or culture is the preceding medium or culture.
Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.
Being-alone is a deficient mode of being-with; its possibility is a proof for the latter.
We should be sensitive to the thread of silence from which the tissue of speech is woven.
The child lives in a world which he unhesitatingly believes accessible to all around him.
Whoever is not prepared to talk about capitalism should also remain silent about fascism.
Thus the radii of all education run together into one center which is called personality.
People can have a long-term life plan only if they know their private property is secure.
It is difficult to thinkof any circumstances where learning may be said to be impossible.
In God's eyes, there's not before and after. Every moment of time is simultaneous to God.
Philosophy... is the creative perception by the spirit of the meaning of human existence.
A man is himself important precisely in proportion that all things seem important to him.
This is perhaps the most profound meaning of the book of Job, the best example of wisdom.
Morality [or ethics] is not a subject; it is a life put to the test in dozens of moments.
In the depth of the anxiety of having to die is the anxiety of being eternally forgotten.
I came to China to follow my star and to steep myself in the raw regions of the universe.
If you think your child's academic studies are more important than the arts, think again.
Anything worth knowing is already known and must be remembered and reclaimed by the soul.
That a guardian should require another guardian to take care of him is ridiculous indeed.