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It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.
Almost all rich veins of original and striking speculation have been opened by systematic half-thinkers.
In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race.
The preoccupation with what should be is estimable only when the respect for what is has been exhausted.
The masses think that is is easy to flee from reality, when it is the most difficult thing in the world.
The object of art like every other product creates a public which is sensitive to art and enjoys beauty.
Free education for all children in public schools... Combination of education with industrial production
All science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided.
Religion is only the illusory sun which revolves round man as long as he does not revolve round himself.
Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.
Returning to the source is stillness. It is returning to one's fate. Returning to one's fate is eternal.
Man is ruled by Earth. Earth is ruled by Heaven. Heaven is ruled by the Way. The Way is ruled by itself.
The truly great ones rely on substance, and not on surface, hold on to the fruit, and not to the flower.
Those who are quiet value the words. When their task is completed, people will say: We did it ourselves.
I am good to people who are good. I am also good to people who are not good. Because Virtue is goodness.
What those people who ask for equality have in mind is always an increase in their own power to consume.
My attitude towards him is an attitude towards a soul. I am not of the opinion that he has a soul. . . .
My aim is: to teach you to pass from a piece of disguised nonsense to something that is patent nonsense.
Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.
Most of the propositions and questions to be found in philosophical works are not false but nonsensical.
Courage, not cleverness; not even inspiration, is the grain of mustard that grows up to be a great tree.
For life in the present there is no death. Death is not an event in life. It is not a fact in the world.
I am showing my pupils details of an immense landscape which they cannot possibly know their way around.
I follow nature as the surest guide, and resign myself with implicit obedience to her sacred ordinances.
The rabble estimate few things according to their real value, most things according to their prejudices.
Piety and holiness of life will propitiate the gods. [Lat., Deos placatos pietas efficiet et sanctitas.]
Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
The will to mastery becomes all the more urgent the more technology threatens to slip from human control
Truth is something so noble that if God could turn aside from it, I could keep the truth and let God go.
He who loves others is constantly loved by them. He who respects others is constantly respected by them.
The love which moves the world, according to common Christian belief, is God's love and the love of God.
Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?
Suppression of impulses that would put you in danger is obviously an important neurobiological function.
I don't think nationalism is alone holding the field; it's in contention with a lot of different things.
The one who learns and learns and doesn't practice is like the one who plows and plows and never plants.
As the proverb says, "a good beginning is half the business" and "to have begun well" is praised by all.
If you are willing to reflect on the courage and moderation of other people, you will find them strange.
There is yet something remaining for the dead, and some far better thing for the good than for the evil.
Consider before acting, to avoid foolishness: It is the worthless man who speaks and acts thoughtlessly.
At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.
There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another.
Common sense is the best distributed thing in the world, for we all think we possess a good share of it.
It is contrary to reasoning to say that there is a vacuum or space in which there is absolutely nothing.
We are equal inhabitants of a paradise of individuals in which everybody has the right to be understood.
When many people individually get what they want, the result may be something they collectively dislike.
When we look at a photograph of ourselves or of others, we are really looking at the return of the dead.
Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism.
The time has come to realize that supersensible knowledge has now to arise from the materialistic grave.
Just where death is expecting you is something we cannot know; so, for your part, expect him everywhere.
It is never too late to turn from the errors of our ways: He who repents of his sins is almost innocent.