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Error is indeed our enemy, but it alone points to the truth and therefore deserves our respectful treatment.
This nation's impulse is toward the future, and tradition seems more of a shackle to it than an inspiration.
The wise man knows of all things, as far as possible, although he has no knowledge of each of them in detail
True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods.
A king ruleth as he ought, a tyrant as he lists, a king to the profit of all, a tyrant only to please a few.
Happiness lies in virtuous activity, and perfect happiness lies in the best activity, which is contemplative
The man with a host of friends who slaps on the back everybody he meets is regarded as the friend of nobody.
Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature's unrealized ends.
Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil and, if they cannot, feel they have lost their liberty.
What now on the other hand makes people sociable is their incapacity to endure solitude and thus themselves.
Life is a task to be done. It is a fine thing to say defunctus est; it means that the man has done his task.
It is difficult, if not impossible, to define the limit of our reasonable desires in respect of possessions.
Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts.
I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
A great many worries can be diminished by realizing the unimportance of the matter which is causing anxiety.
The secrets to happiness include enterprise, exploration of one's interests and the overcoming of obstacles.
The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists - that is why they invented hell.
Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
Unless man have a natural bent in accordance with nature's, he has no chance of understanding nature at all.
There is the love of knowing without the love of learning; the beclouding here leads to dissipation of mind.
Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.
Sincerity is that whereby self-completion is effected, and its way is that by which man must direct himself.
White supremacy is so deep-seated that it's hard to see it eliminated. But we could definitely push it back.
The capitalist culture of consumption... does not provide meaningful sustenance for large numbers of people.
The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It's the person you become.
Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can't separate them.
To philosopher and historian the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events.
When we reflect on the shortness and uncertainty of life, how despicable seem all our pursuits of happiness.
The simplest and most obvious cause which can there be assigned for any phenomena, is probably the true one.
Market society is a game where you win by making sure other people are better off with you than without you.
Men find happiness neither by means of the body nor through possessions, but through uprightness and wisdom.
Probably all laws are useless; for good men do not want laws at all, and bad men are made no better by them.
Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.
One saintly priest attracts more souls to Christ...than do those who lack the imprint of their sacred office
He once begged alms of a statue, and, when asked why he did so, replied, "To get practice in being refused."
When Thales was asked what was difficult, he said, To know one's self. And what was easy, To advise another.
Antisthenes used to say that envious people were devoured by their own disposition, just as iron is by rust.
But do not ask me where I am going, As I travel in this limitless world, Where every step I take is my home.
Though it has no thought of keeping watch, it's not for naught that the scarecrow stands in the grain field.
If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.
We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.
There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.
The true believer, no matter how rowdy and violent his acts, is basically an obedient and submissive person.
Freedom released the energies of the masses not by exhilarating but by unbalancing, irritating, and goading.
Liberalism is a most important by-product of Rationalism, and its origins and ideology must be clearly shown
A book is always an emergence above everyday life. A book is expressed life and thus is an addition to life.
The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.
The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.
In all sincere speech there is power, not necessarily great power, but as much as the speaker is capable of.