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War is the father and king of all: some he has made gods, and some men; some slaves and some free.
The society exists for the benefit of its members; not its members for the benefit of the society.
I follow the Way of Love, and where Love's caravan takes its path, there is my religion, my faith.
The disease that knowledge brings is arrogance, and the disease that worship brings is showing off
When someone offends me, I think it’s a gift from Allah (god). He (Allah) is teaching me humility.
All human knowledge begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to concepts, and ends with ideas.
But a lie is a lie, and in itself intrinsically evil, whether it be told with good or bad intents.
Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.
Is it reasonable to assume a purposiveness in all the parts of nature and to deny it to the whole?
School prepares for the alienating institutionalization of life by teaching the need to be taught.
I am one of those marranes who no longer say they are Jews even in the secret of their own hearts.
The incarnation is true, not of Christ exclusively, but of Man universally, and God everlastingly.
There are always four sides to a story: your side, their side, the truth and what really happened.
Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
Do you not know...that a child badly taught is farther from being wise than one not taught at all?
The taste for splendor is hardly ever combined in the same souls with the taste for the honorable.
To renounce freedom is to renounce one's humanity, one's rights as a man and equally one's duties.
What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.
It is a hard but good law of fate, that as every evil, so every excessive power, wears itself out.
The visible mark of extraordinary wisdom and power appear so plainly in all the works of creation.
Action is the great business of mankind, and the whole matter about which all laws are conversant.
Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.
We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.
And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died.
The most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.
Society is a sort of organism on the growth of which conscious efforts can exercise little effect.
If you tell me, I will listen. If you show me, I will see. If you let me experience, I will learn!
Do you think you can make the world a better place? I do not think you can. It is already perfect.
Worlds and particles, bodies and beings, time and space: All are transient expressions of the Tao.
Wikipedia will be small, disreputable, and unimportant compared to CZ in a few more years. Uh, ;-)
The ultimate condition of production is therefore the reproduction of the conditions of production
As we expand our knowledge of good books, we shrink the circle of men whose company we appreciate.
The better an entrepreneur succeeds, the more is he vilified and themore is he soaked by taxation.
We must fight all that we dislike in public life. We must substitute better ideas for wrong ideas.
There is no kind of freedom and liberty other than the kind which the market economy brings about.
Lenin's ideal was to build a nation's production effort according to the model of the post office.
One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.'
One age misunderstands another; and a petty age misunderstands all the others in its own ugly way.
That which cannot be said must not be said. That which cannot be said, one must be silent thereof.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.
We are not born, we do not live for ourselves alone; our country, our friends, have a share in us.
I have sworn with my tongue, but my mind is unsworn. [Lat., Juravi lingua, mentem injuratem gero.]
Not to have knowledge of what happened before you were born is to be condemned to live as a child.
The proof of a well-trained mind is that it rejoices in which is good and grieves at the opposite.
Whatever that be which thinks, understands, wills, and acts, it is something celestial and divine.
Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator.
No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable.
It requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women.
Only the small secrets need to be protected. The large ones are kept secret by public incredulity.