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Only when one thinks even much more madly than the philosophers can one solve their problems.
A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.
If you wish to persuade me, you must think my thoughts, feel my feelings, and speak my words.
I remember the very thing that I do not wish to; I cannot forget the things I wish to forget.
The avarice of the old: it's absurd to increase one's luggage as one nears the journey's end.
That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself.
There are many people for whom 'thinking' necessarily means identifying with existing trends.
Scribal culture and Gothic architecture were both concerned with light through, not light on.
Good taste is the first refuge of the non creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist.
Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist.
People have a deep need to be legislators, and the idea of autonomy has become very precious.
Nothing so tends to mask the face of God as religion; it can be a substitute for God himself.
The word "art" does not designate the concept of a mere eventuality; it is a concept of rank.
God's plan' is often a front for men's plans and a cover for inadequacy, ignorance, and evil.
No-one knows what the soul is. But what we do know is, the soul is where God works compassion
The disease of men is that they neglect their own fields and go to weed the fields of others.
One cannot attend to oneself, take care of oneself, without a relationship to another person.
[Knowledge is governed not by] a theory of knowledge, but by a theory of discursive practice.
Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.
Had Mother Nature been a real parent, she would have been in jail for child abuse and murder.
Virtue is about wanting right and good things, not about being particularly good at thinking.
The logic of validation allows us to move between the two limits of dogmatism and skepticism.
Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.
You shouldn't say 'animals' to distinguish between humans and non-humans. We are all animals.
Love is the most universal, the most tremendous and the most mysterious of the cosmic forces.
He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
When a political organization loses contact with its origin, it declines and risks implosion.
It's right to flog a dead horse sometimes, when the previous flogging has not annihilated it.
I am a conservative thinker, well known as such, outspoken as such but reasonable in my view.
How does meaning get into the image? Where does it end? And if it ends, what is there beyond?
The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis.
Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
If thou wishest to get rid of thy evil propensities, thou must keep far from evil companions.
That which we are not permitted to have we delight in; that which we can have is disregarded.
Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
Concealed anger is to be feared; but hatred openly manifested destroys its chance of revenge.
It is difficult to bring people to goodness with lessons, but it is easy to do so by example.
Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
The simultaneous existence of opposite virtues in the soul like pincers to catch hold of God.
Algebra and money are essentially levelers; the first intellectually, the second effectively.
Words are never 'only words'; they matter because they define the contours of what we can do.
The tongue of a fool is the key of his counsel, which, in a wise man, wisdom hath in keeping.
Obscurity is dispelled by augmenting the light of discernment, not by attacking the darkness.
If the whole world depends on today's youth, I can't see the world lasting another 100 years.
If you will take my advice you will think little of Socrates, and a great deal more of truth.
To Dare is to risk losing your foothold for a moment, Not to Dare is to risk losing yourself.