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There is no real education that does not respond to felt need; anything else acquired is trifling display.
Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidiest and most pernicious illusion.
There are many worlds and many systems of Universes existing all at the same time, all of them perishable.
Experience has shown that it is difficult, if not impossible, for a populous state to be run by good laws.
The soul suffers when the body is diseased or traumatized, while the body suffers when the soul is ailing.
It is easier to get one or a few of good sense, and of ability to legislate and adjudge, than to get many.
You must treat a work of art like a great man: stand before it and wait patiently till it deigns to speak.
The law of simplicity and naïveté applies to all fine art, for it is compatible with what is most sublime.
Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak.
. . . to know the order of nature, and regard the universe as orderly is the highest function of the mind.
The fact that a belief has a good moral effect upon a man is no evidence whatsoever in favor of its truth.
Broadly speaking, we are in the middle of a race between human skill as a means and human folly as an end.
Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man.
Neither the Church nor modern public opinion condemns petting, provided it stops short at a certain point.
Any philosophy worth taking seriously would have to be built upon a firm foundation of unyielding despair.
Mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics.
We, one and all of us, have an instinct to pray; and this fact constitutes an invitation from God to pray.
Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.
A good man does not worry about not being known by others, but rather is concerned about not knowing them.
One is that I am a regular, everyday person, you know what I mean. I feel that wherever I am, I really am.
Without the interpretation of the universe by man to the glory of God the whole world would be meaningless
Every week brings to us 10,080 minutes That is our capital. How shall we use it to get the utmost benefit?
God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.
A leader enables people to love and honor the role they play in the organization or group they are part of
We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.
There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.
I try to figure out - intellectually, philosophically, psychologically - what the experience of beauty is.
Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.
It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend.
If he cannot stop the mind that seeks after fame and profit, he will spend his life without finding peace.
Since Mary is the prototype of pure womanhood, the imitation of Mary must be the goal of girls' education.
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
When our friends are present we ought to treat them well; and when they are absent, to speak of them well.
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
Nowhere at present is there such a measureless loathing of their country by educated people as in America.
Of course, any simplification runs the risk of mutilating reality; but it helps us establish perspectives.
All education is the art of making men ethical (sittlich), of transforming the old Adam into the new Adam.
Mortality has its compensations; one is that all evils are transitory, another that better times may come.
Freedom which has genuine meaning is more than a timeless abstraction, more than an absence of restraints.
The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
Peace is not in itself a dream, but we know it only as the result of a momentary equilibrium--an accident.
There are 2 sorts of pride: one in which we approve others, the other in which we cannot accept ourselves.
Were wisdom to be sold, she would give no price; every man is satisfied with the share he has from nature.
And some men are as ignorant of what they do when awake as they are forgetful of what they do when asleep.
What we have caught and what we have killed we have left behind, but what has escaped us we bring with us.
Not every problem someone has with his girlfriend is necessarily due to the capitalist mode of production.
Every man is free to do that which he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man.
To rule by fettering the mind through fear of punishment in another world is just as base as to use force.
Many modern philosophers claim that probability is relation between an hypothesis and the evidence for it.
If you were just intent on killing people you could do better with a bomb made of agricultural fertiliser.