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In this world there is a paradise, whoever does not enter it will not enter the Paradise of the Hereafter.
Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
Intellectual honesty consists in stating the precise conditions under which one will give up one's belief.
Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.
The circle of the return to birth can only remain open, but this is a chance, a sign of life, and a wound.
The sickly cultural pathos which the whole of France indulges in, that fetishism of the cultural heritage.
Peter had a genius for imitation; but he lacked true genius, which is creative and makes all from nothing.
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
I respect orders but I respect myself too and I do not obey foolish rules made especially to humiliate me.
A man who is free is like a mangy sheep in a herd. He will contaminate my entire kingdom and ruin my work.
One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.
A pale reflection of myself wavers in my consciousness...and suddenly the “I” pales, pales, and fades out.
My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.
Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.
God is not the mere dead conception to which we have thus given utterance, but he is in himself pure Life.
Teachers are the agents through which knowledge and skills are communicated and rules of conduct enforced.
Untruth being unacceptable to the mind of man, there is no other defence left for absurdity but obscurity.
The hazards of the generalized prisoner's dilemma are removed by the match between the right and the good.
Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness.
The higher the hill, the stronger the wind: so the loftier the life, the stronger the enemy's temptations.
Everyone can feel the nothingness, the void, just beneath the surface of everyday routines and securities.
Mass society has displaced real community, where people function together and account for their own lives.
Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist.
Since love is the most delicate and total act of a soul, it will reflect the state and nature of the soul.
People might love themselves with the most entire and unbounded affection, and yet be extremely miserable.
So, as one sees, I by no means deprive my world of stubborn reality, if I merely call it a world of ideas.
We act and walk and speak and talk in ways that consolidate an impression of being a man or being a woman.
The speaker must choose a comprehensible expression so that speaker and hearer can understand one another.
The imaginary flowers of religion adorn man's chains. Man must throw off the flowers, and also the chains.
Money is the alienated essence of man's work and existence; this essence dominates him and he worships it.
In proportion as capital accumulates, the lot of the laborer, be his payment high or low, must grow worse.
The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
Weapons are instruments of fear; they are not a wise man's tools. He uses them only when he has no choice.
Complete your task. Seek no reward. Make no claims. Without faltering fully choose to do what you must do.
Weapons are ominous tools. They are not the noble ruler's tools. He only uses them when he can't avoid it.
My words are easy to understand and easy to perform, Yet no man under heaven knows them or practices them.
A great country is like the lower outlet of a river. It is the world's meeting ground, the world's female.
To theology, ... only what it holds sacred is true, whereas to philosophy, only what holds true is sacred.
A wealthy man can preserve his wealth only by continuing to serve the consumers in the most efficient way.
What Copernicus really achieved was not the discovery of a true theory but of a fertile new point of view.
What signs fail to express, their application shows. What signs slur over, their application says clearly.
Majorities and minorities cannot rightfully be taken at all into account in deciding questions of justice.
For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
When time and need require, we should resist with all our might, and prefer death to slavery and disgrace.
It is the character of a brave and resolute man not to be ruffled by adversity and not to desert his post.
Orators are most vehement when they have the weakest cause, as men get on horseback when they cannot walk.
Philosophers don't all believe that ethics is just based on intuition. That's just stupid! It's ignoramus!
World War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation.
the only people who have proof of their sanity are those who have been discharged from mental institutions