Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
The problem with the wise is they are so filled with doubts while the dull are so certain.
Shakespeare . . . If he does not give you delight, you had better ignore him [if you can].
There's a Bible on that shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire - poison and antidote.
It is in our hearts that evil lies, and it is from our hearts that it must be plucked out.
Though boys throw stones at frogs in sport, the frogs do not die in sport, but in earnest.
Art is mainly about wrestling with material reality, not striving after a spiritual ideal.
To be loved, we should merit but little esteem; all superiority attracts awe and aversion.
Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others.
If you did not do so for the sake of riches,You must have done so for the sake of novelty.
When you are laboring for others, let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.
The superior man * * * in regard to his speech * * * is anxious that it should be sincere.
The greatest danger to the Christian church today is that of pitching its message too low.
There is no polite way to suggest to someone that they have devoted their life to a folly.
We change the world not by what we say or do, but as a consequence of what we have become.
Of all sciences there is none where first appearances are more deceitful than in politics.
Good breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character.
In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.
One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
Better to be a beggar in freedom than to be forced into compromises against my conscience.
When the slave auctioneer asked in what he was proficient, he replied, "In ruling people."
People who truly follow the Way would do well to conceal the fact that they are Buddhists.
It is always safe to assume that people are more subtle and less sensitive than they seem.
The weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of truths that must be kept from it.
No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments.
The purest expression of the doctrine of Liberalism was probably that of Benjamin Constant
The 19th century was the age of Individualism the 20th and 21st are the ages of Socialism.
The Catholics had been in the position of oppressors, and the Protestants of the oppressed
The person must give himself an external sphere of freedom in order to have being as Idea.
For my own private satisfaction, I had rather be master of my own time than wear a diadem.
All moral laws are merely statements that certain kinds of actions will have good effects.
It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people.
Words are weapons, and it is dangerous . . . to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy.
Animals are born and bred in litters. Solitude grows blessed and peaceful only in old age.
The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.
Tolerated people are never conciliated. They live on, but the aroma of their life is lost.
The morality of customs,the spirit of the laws, produces the man emancipated from the law.
It is not difficult to know a thing; what is difficult is to know how to use what you know
A wise ruler, when he makes his laws, is bound to find himself in conflict with the world.
Luck serves ... as rationalization for every people that is not master of its own destiny.
An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.
There is only one way of not hating those who do us wrong, and that is by doing them good.
Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.
Immortal mortals, mortal immortals, one living the others death and dying the others life.
The waking have one common world, but the sleeping turn aside each into a world of his own
Could you tell night from day? No, I regard all such distinctions as logically impossible.
The tangible source of exploitation disappears behind the façade of objective rationality.
The idea of disembodied spirits is wholly unsupported by evidence, and I cannot accept it.
No philosopher's stone of a constitution can produce golden conduct from leaden instincts.
Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.