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What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak.
Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.
To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.
I await your sentence with less fear than you pass it. The time will come when all will see what I see.
The stars in the sky are really other suns like our own, around which orbit other planets. (paraphrase)
This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.
Generally speaking, violence always arises out of impotence. It is the hope of those who have no power.
Metaphysical fallacies contain the only clues we have to what thinking means to those who engage in it.
A functionary, when he really is nothing more than a functionary, is really a very dangerous gentleman.
The ideal, after all, is true than the real: for the ideal is the eternal element in perishable things.
Nothing endures but change. There is nothing permanent except change. All is flux, nothing stays still.
Unless you expect the unexpected you will never find it, for it is hard to discover and hard to attain.
May you have plenty of wealth, you men of Ephesus, in order that you may be punished for your evil ways
The truth of art lies in its power to break the monopoly of established reality to define what is real.
Entertainment and learning are not opposites; entertainment may be the most effective mode of learning.
The web of domination has become the web of Reason itself, and this society is fatally entangled in it.
Practically all the prominent leaders of thought in China today are openly agnostics and even atheists.
The business of philosophy is not to give rules, but to analyze the private judgments of common reason.
In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
No one will go to hell simply because all they needed was a little more time and they died prematurely.
Survival in the conventional sense of the term means to continue to live, but also to live after death.
There is nothing man desires more than a heroic life: there is nothing less common to men than heroism.
Western humanism has religious and transcendent sources without which it is incomprehensible to itself.
A great philosopher in the wrong is like a beacon on the reefs which says to seamen: steer clear of me.
Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.
Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given to us by education.
We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.
I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become.
Time is too large, it can't be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.
What I see is teeming cohesion, contained dispersal... For him, to sculpt is to take the fat off space.
Outside nature, against nature, without excuse, beyond remedy, except what remedy I find within myself.
Night is falling: at dusk, you must have good eyesight to be able to tell the Good Lord from the Devil.
I entered the Communist Party because its cause was just and I will leave it when it ceases to be just.
Unkind language is sure to produce the fruits of unkindness--that is, suffering in the bosom of others.
If all meanings could be adequately expressed by words, the arts of painting and music would not exist.
If by gaining knowledge we destroy our health, we labour for a thing that will be useless in our hands.
It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.
The mass believes that it has the right to impose and to give force of law to notions born in the café.
There is but one way left to save a classic; to give up revering him and use him for our own salvation.
A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation.
We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.
The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it.
Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual love.
If one wants to be an ox one can easily turn one's back on hum suffering and look after one's own skin.
No particular theory may ever be regarded as absolutely certain.... No scientific theory is sacrosanct.
I can give a precise day when Christ came to me and began to transform my life with his power and love.
All men desire to free themselves solely from death; they do not know how to free themselves from life.
The value of teaching without words and accomplishing without action is understood by few in the world.
Things exalted then decay. This is going against the Way. What goes against the Way meets an early end.