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Miracles are propitious accidents, the natural causes of which are too complicated to be readily understood.
Does the thoughtful man suppose that...the present experiment in civilization is the last world we will see?
Truth is a jewel which should not be painted over; but it may be set to advantage and shown in a good light.
The mediocrity of everything in the great world of today is simply appalling. We live in intellectual slums.
Governments must be conformable to the nature of the governed; governments are even a result of that nature.
In the eyes of authority - and maybe rightly so - nothing looks more like a terrorist than the ordinary man.
To reject revelational epistemology is to commit yourself to defending the truth of autonomous epistemology.
Blind nature will nearly always select the most probable, but man can let the most improbable become actual.
To learn new habits is everything, for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits.
Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.
If you do not hope, you will not win that which is not hoped for, since it is unattainable and inaccessible.
I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.
Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final.
When I could have used a wife, I could not support one; and when I could support one, I no longer needed any
Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated.
Why is it the philosopher who is expected to be easier and not some scientist who is even more inaccessible?
The machine is a tool. But it is not a neutral tool. We are deeply influenced by the machine while using it.
It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of propaganda techniques on a societal scale.
The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical belief.
A series of accidents creates a positively light-hearted state, out of consideration for this strange power.
To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.
With children use force; with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law.
She was dull, unattractive, couldn't tell the time, count money or tie her own shoe laces... But I loved her
Ideas come in pairs and they contradict one another; their opposition is the principal engine of reflection.
Do you think I can read [Alain] Robbe-Grillet in an underdeveloped country? He does not feel himself maimed.
The appearance of the other in the world corresponds therefore to a congealed sliding of the whole universe.
I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.
That which parents should take care of... is to distinguish between the wants of fancy, and those of nature.
The price paid for intellectual pacification is the sacrifice of the entire moral courage of the human mind.
The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.
In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.
With morality we correct the mistakes of our instincts, and with love we correct the mistakes of our morals.
I pre-suppose, of course, a reader who is willing to learn something new and therefore to think for himself.
Your own positive future begins in this moment. All you have is right now. Every goal is possible from here.
The man of knowledge acquires something new everyday, and the man of Tao lets go of something new every day.
He who holds on to the Way seeks no excess. Since he lacks excess, he can grow old in no need to be renewed.
A follower of the Way (Tao) loses something each day. Loss after loss until arriving at Non Action (Wu Wei).
When the uncarved wood is split, its parts are put to use. When the sage is put to use, he becomes the head.
If people live in constant fear of death, and if breaking the law is punished by death, then who would dare?
As soon as rules were made, names were given. There are already many names. One must know when it is enough.
Do not make them (people) weary at their work. If you do not make them weary, they will not be weary of you.
No misfortune is worse than underestimating the enemy. Underestimating the enemy, I risk losing my treasure.
Therefore the stiff and unbending is the disciple of death. The gentle and yielding is the disciple of life.
The unphilosophical majority among men are the ones most helplessly dependent on their era's dominant ideas.
Sexual difference is probably the issue in our time which could be our 'salvation' if we thought it through.
What mankind needs today is liberation from the rule of nonsensical slogans and a return to sound reasoning.
The causes of all panics, crashes and depressions can be summed up in only four words: the misuse of credit.
German Marxian's coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.
Production is not something physical, material, and external; it is a spiritual and intellectual phenomenon.