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Those who approach life like a child playing a game, moving and pushing pieces, possess the power of kings.
Until the seventeenth century there was no concept of evidence with which to pose the problem of induction!
Culture makes pain tolerable by interpreting it's necessity; only pain perceived as curable is intolerable.
The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical belief
Education no longer has a humanist end or any value in itself; it has only one goal, to create technicians.
Technical civilization has made a great error in not suppressing death, the only human reality still intact
Mass media provides the essential link between the individual and the demands of the technological society.
We don't love qualities; we love a person; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as their qualities.
It is not our criminal actions that require courage to confess, but those which are ridiculous and foolish.
The falsification of history has done more to impede human development than any one thing known to mankind.
There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
The real nature of the present revealed itself: it was what exists, all that was not present did not exist.
Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short of it.
If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times.
To the being of fully alive, the future is not ominous but a promise; it surrounds the present like a halo.
The teacher loses the position of external boss or dictator but takes on that of leader of group activities
There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.
It is one thing to persuade, another to command; one thing to press with arguments, another with penalties.
It is practice alone that brings the powers of the mind, as well as those of the body, to their perfection.
We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.
If we once, and for so long, lived in balance with nature and each other, we should be able to do so again.
What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men, but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones.
These are the only genuine ideas, the ideas of the shipwrecked. All the rest is rhetoric, posturing, farce.
Religious faith, indeed, relates to that which is above us, but it must arise from that which is within us.
To operate within the matrix of power is not the same as to replicate uncritically relations of domination.
War begets war. It produces outraged and humiliated and furious people. That is almost invariably the case.
Social reforms are never carried out by the weakness of the strong; but always by the strength of the weak.
In the eyes of dialectical philosophy, nothing is established for all times, nothing is absolute or sacred.
Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
Hazrat Mahal, Begum of Oudh, during the national liberation uprising of 1857-59 in India headed the rebels.
The survival value of intelligence is that it allows us to extinct a bad idea, before the idea extincts us.
. . . it seems to me certain that more people are killed out of righteous stupidity than out of wickedness.
Creating without claiming, Doing without taking credit, Guiding without interfering, This is Primal Virtue.
Live simply and virtuously, true to your nature, drawing no line between what is spiritual and what is not.
Stop leaving and you will arrive, Stop searching and you will see, Stop running away and you will be found.
Hold on to the great image, and the whole world follows, follows unharmed, content and completely at peace.
The best way to live / is to be like water / For water benefits all things / and goes against none of them.
Can you be still and look inside?If so, then you know the truth is always available, and always responsive.
The way to use life is to do nothing through acting, The way to use life is to do everything through being.
The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls, but in the space within to be lived in.
The people starve because those above them eat too much tax-grain. That is the only reason why they starve.
To philosophize with open eyes is to philosophize in the dark. Only the blind can look straight at the sun.
The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.
The living is not perfect because it is liable to change; the dead is not perfect because it does not live.
Philosophy, as we use the word, is a fight against the fascination which forms of expression exert upon us.
I do not wish to die: but I care not if I were dead. [Lat., Emori nolo: sed me esse mortuum nihil aestimo.]
Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says.
The recovery of freedom is so splendid a thing that we must not shun even death when seeking to recover it.
The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.
There is nothing better fitted to delight the reader than change of circumstances and varieties of fortune.