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It is dangerous for a ruler to trust others. He who trusts others can be manipulated by others.
if we do not know our own history, we are doomed to live it as though it were our private fate.
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.
It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.
No man ever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater to himself.
Of all whose words I have heard, no one attains to this, to know that wisdom is apart from all.
People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
Whatever fosters militarism makes for barbarism; whatever fosters peace makes for civilization.
The Chinese people, too, went through all kinds of vicissitudes in their religious development.
A believer to another believer is like two hands, one washes the other (correcting each other).
Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
No one will ever know from what secret I am writing and the fact that I say so changes nothing.
When a man dies he clutches in his hands only that which he has given away during his lifetime.
Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.
For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
What never vary are the necessities of being in the world, of having to labor and to die there.
Without publicity, no good is permanent; under the auspices of publicity, no evil can continue.
Education is not an affair of 'telling' and being told, but an active and constructive process.
Democracy is a form of government only because it is a form of moral and spiritual association.
It is difficult to connect general principles with such thoroughly concrete things as children.
He that will make good use of any part of his life must allow a large part of it to recreation.
It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving wherein men find pleasure to be deceived.
The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.
Though the familiar use of things about us take off our wonder, yet it cures not our ignorance.
Many people mistakenly suppose that the essence of consciousness is that of a control mechanism
It is conceivable that religion may be morally useful without being intellectually sustainable.
The peculiarity of the evidence of mathematical truths is that all the argument is on one side.
Both teachers and learners go to sleep at their post as soon as there is no enemy in the field.
What is needed is not a revolution in the opposite direction, but the opposite of a revolution.
I do not follow closely anymore, since there is a limit to how much heartsickness one can bear.
The Communists have no need to introduce free love; it has existed almost from time immemorial.
Since only what is material is perceptible, knowable, nothing is known of the existence of God.
To know that you do not know is the best. To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease.
He who steals a hook shall be hanged; while he who steals the state shall be crowned as prince.
In the Way of Heaven, there is no partiality of love; it is always on the side of the good man.
The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.
Fine words are traded. Noble deeds gain respect. But people who are not good, why abandon them?
The sage knows himself, but does not parade. He cherishes himself, but does not praise himself.
From now back to antiquity, its (Tao's) name has not been lost. Thereby, see the origin of all.
Nothing is weaker than water, Yet for overcoming what is hard and strong, Nothing surpasses it.
People take death lightly. They expect too much of life. That is why people take death lightly.
The greatest teacher has nothing to say. He simply gives himself in service, and never worries.
Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly.
There is not a philosophical method, though there are indeed methods, like different therapies.
It's only by thinking even more crazily than philosophers do that you can solve their problems.
A slave government is an oligarchy; and one, too, of the most arbitrary and criminal character.
Study carefully, the character of the one you recommend, lest their misconduct bring you shame.
No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion.
Anyone may fairly seek his own advantage, but no one has a right to do so at another's expense.