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No matter how smart you are, you're smarter if you take the easy ways when they are available.
I am a philosopher, not a scientist, and we philosophers are better at questions than answers.
Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
To a wise man, the whole earth is open; for the native land of a good soul is the whole earth.
There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.
To what shall I liken the world? Moonlight, reflected In dewdrops, Shaken from a crane's bill.
Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.
Those who lack the capacity to achieve much in an atmosphere of freedom will clamor for power.
Even in slight things the experience of the new is rarely without some stirring of foreboding.
The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.
A society that refuses to strive for superfluities is likely to end up lacking in necessities.
Nature has no compassion. Nature accepts no excuses and the only punishment it knows is death.
To the frustrated, freedom from responsibility is more attractive than freedom from restraint.
In running away from ourselves we either fall on our neighbor's shoulder or fly at his throat.
Lowered reliability obviously yields a lesser competence. But lowered breadth does so as well.
If one really thinks about the body as such, there is no possible outline of the body as such.
To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.
Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.
The spirit is never at rest, but always engaged in progressive motion, giving itself new form.
[Christianity] neither enjoins the nastiness of the Cynic, nor the insensibility of the Stoic.
When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.
Boston was a moral and intellectual nursery, always busy applying first principles to trifles.
A creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities.
I waited far too long, being optimistic rather than realistic. I also failed to do my homework
The extreme form of power is All against One, the extreme form of violence is One against All.
Those who are awake all live in the same world. Those who are asleep live in their own worlds.
Absolute morality is the regulation of conduct in such a way that pain shall not be inflicted.
I can only please one person per day. Today isn't your day, tomorrow doesn't look good either.
Plutonium has a quite extraordinary relationship with people. They made it, and it kills them.
Make tawba not just for sins you've committed, but also for obligations you haven't fulfilled.
Always remember that there is no conversion to God if there is no conversion to the oppressed.
THERE ARE TWO THINGS that don't have to mean anything, one is music and the other is laughter.
Suicide is not abominable because God prohibits it; God prohibits it because it is abominable.
How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.
The contemporary Christian mind is starved, and as a result we have small, impoverished souls.
Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.
However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.
Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove.
A child may have to be snatched with roughness away from a fire so that he shall not be burnt.
Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.
The more the society becomes a technological society, the less it has to hold itself together.
The "supreme good" and its attainment -- that is happiness. And joy is: response to happiness.
It wasn't possible just to rid oneself, simply, of the norms through which one is constituted.
The capitalist class rules but does not govern: it contents itself with ruling the government.
[Napoleon] swept away everywhere the establishments of feudality. ... [He was] Caesar himself.
If we wish our civilization to survive we must break with the habit of deference to great men.
We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant.
Our aim must be to make our successive mistakes as quickly as possible. To speed up evolution.
In the end, The treasure of life is missed by those who hold on and gained by those who let go