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The combative instinct is a savage prompting by which one man's good is found in another's evil.
A leftist government doesn't exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments.
People are submissive to power, and few of them can be influenced by doctrines of righteousness.
The Way is the beginning of the ten thousand things and the guiding thread of truth and falsity.
No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes.
If error is corrected whenever it is recognized as such, the path of error is the path of truth.
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
The criterion for free choice can never be an absolute one, but neither is it entirely relative.
When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
Two things strike me dumb: the infinite starry heavens, and the sense of right and wrong in man.
Act so as to use humanity, yourself and others, always as an end and never as a means to an end.
Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.
God's love causes the beauty of what He loves, our love is caused by the beauty of what we love.
Nothing is wholly obvious without becoming enigmatic. Reality itself is too obvious to be true .
Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality.
Love is to recognize that the other person is a person, is precious, is important and has value.
For it is in our nature to endure patiently the decrees of fate, but not the ill-will of others.
When the rich [and politically powerful] make war, it's the poor [and politically weak] who die.
Our responsibility is much greater than we might have supposed, because it involves all mankind.
Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.
Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
Lies, fables and romances must needs be probable, but not the truth and foundation of our faith.
Creative thinking will improve as we relate the new fact to the old and all facts to each other.
When we know our own strength, we shall the better know what to undertake with hopes of success.
I do what I do and hope that it might connect with people who are thinking along the same lines.
Loyalty is a good for the loyal man; but it may be mischievous for those whom his cause assails.
Unless you can find some sort of LOYALTY, you cannot find unity and peace in your active living.
Photography has a relation to intervention, but photographing is not the same as an intervening.
I think we have to ask, not, what "Gender trouble" is today but where "Gender trouble" is today.
The blood of heroes is closer to the Lord than the ink of scholars and the prayers of the pious.
I take as my fundamental starting point the fundamental distinction between work and interaction
Without the presence of class warfare, trade unions would be hard put to justfy their existence.
Private property has made us so stupid and one-sided that an object is only ours when we have it
One cannot reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
Thus an army without flexibility never wins a battle. A tree that is unbending is easily broken.
Knowing that we don't know it's humility; thinking that we know what we don't know, is sickness.
Learn from the people. Plan with the people. Begin with what they have. Build on what they know.
What is strong and rigid is snapped and laid low. What is flexible and soft will always prevail.
When armies are mobilized and issues joined, the man who is sorry over the fact will always win.
Every step toward the elimination of profit is progress on the way toward social disintegration.
When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.
If the will did not exist, neither would there be that centre of the world, which we call the I.
Where our language suggests a body and there is none: there, we should like to say, is a spirit.
What is left over if I subtract the fact that my arms goes up from the fact that I raise my arm?
Do not imagine that these most difficult problems can be thoroughly understood by any one of us.
For every force charged by God, may He be exalted, with some business is an angel put in charge.
There is no more sure tie between friends than when they are united in their objects and wishes.
It is difficult to tell how much men's minds are conciliated by a kind manner and gentle speech.
Wars are to be undertaken in order that it may be possible to live in peace without molestation.