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People cannot accept their own evil if they do not at the same time feel loved, respected and trusted.
Nature wants children to be children before men... Childhood has its own seeing, thinking and feeling.
I exist. It is soft, so soft, so slow. And light: it seems as though it suspends in the air. It moves.
Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.
Everything that exists is born for no reason, carries on living through weakness, and dies by accident
I am alone in this white, garden-rimmed street. Alone and free. But this freedom is rather like death.
Philosophers who pay for their semantics by drawing checks on Darwin are in debt way over their heads.
Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it.
Touch not the flute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent.
Schools should take part in the great work of construction and organization that will have to be done.
The phrase "think for one's self" is a pleonasm. Unless one does it for one's self, it isn't thinking.
Language exists only when it is listened to as well as spoken. The hearer is an indispensable partner.
Let not men think there is no truth, but in the sciences that they study, or the books that they read.
There is not so contemptible a plant or animal that does not confound the most enlarged understanding.
In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts.
Many a good poetic vein is buried under a trade, and never produces any thing for want of improvement.
Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation.
It is plain to me that our prelates, in granting indulgences, do commonly blaspheme the wisdom of God.
The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.
Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food.
But it is not given to every electrician to die in so glorious a manner as the justly envied Richmann.
Interfere with the reality of my world, and you therefore take the very life and heart out of my will.
Historically, terrorism falls in a category different from crimes that concern a criminal court judge.
We hate the very idea that our own ideas may be mistaken, so we cling dogmatically to our conjectures.
While differing widely in the various little bits we know, in our infinite ignorance we are all equal.
Genuine philosophical problems are always rooted outside philosophy and they die if these roots decay.
All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.
Open yourself to the truth, then trust in your natural responses, and everything will fall into place.
Liberal education reminds those members of a mass democracy who have ears to hear, of human greatness.
The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.
It is the rule of law alone which hinders the rulers from turning themselves into the worst gangsters.
In many fields of the administration of interventionist measures, favoritism simply cannot be avoided.
In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.
As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.
The foundations of justice are that on one shall suffer wrong; then, that the public good be promoted.
To those who are engaged in commercial dealings, justice is indispensable for the conduct of business.
But in every matter the consensus of opinion among all nations is to be regarded as the law of nature.
Let a man practise the profession he best knows. [Lat., Quam quisque novit artem, in hac se exerceat.]
Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.
Computers can do better than ever what needn't be done at all. Making sense is still a human monopoly.
American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.
The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare.
Mortal men ask God for good things every day, but they never pray that they may make good use of them.
Patriarchy has stolen our cosmos and returned it in the form of 'Cosmopolitan' magazine and cosmetics.
The very best and highest attainment in this life is to remain still and let God act and speak in you.
Nothing will be able to hinder us, if we desire and seek God alone, and take pleasure in nothing else.
My Lord told me a joke. And seeing Him laugh has done more for me than any scripture I will ever read.
Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.
Democracy does not require perfect equality, but it does require that citizens share in a common life.
Many militants of the secular cause look astonishingly like clergy. Worse: like caricatures of clergy.