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A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.
The fools of the world have been those who have established religions, ceremonies, laws, faith, rule of life.
What can be more stupid than to be in pain about future things and absent ones which at present are not felt?
On man when he came into life the Father conferred the seeds of all kinds and the germs of every way of life.
Spiritual beings, either from the beginning or soon thereafter, become what they are to be for ever and ever.
Philosophy is called upon to compensate for the frustrations of politics and, more generally, of life itself.
There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.
Time is but the space between our memories; as soon as we cease to perceive this space, time has disappeared.
Great wants proceed from great wealth; but they are undutiful children, for they sink wealth down to poverty.
Those who hear and do not understand are like the deaf. Of them the proverb says: "Present, they are absent."
Those unmindful when they hear, for all they make of their intelligence, may be regarded as the walking dead.
Do everything possible so that liberty is victorious over oppression, justice over injustice, love over hate.
Sincerity is the indispensable ground of all conscientiousness, and by consequence of all heartfelt religion.
Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality.
The nice thing about living in a small town is that when you don't know what you're doing, someone else does.
Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.
I ought never to act except in such a way that I could also will that my maxim should become a universal law.
The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies.
Christians should be troublemakers, creators of uncertainty, agents of a dimension incompatible with society.
Because of the myth of progress, it is much easier to sell a man an electric razor than a straight-edged one.
Thinking has become a superfluous exercise... purely internal, without compelling force, more or less a game.
There is no room in the universe for the least contempt or pride; but only for a gentle and a reverent heart.
It is not enough for theory to describe and analyze, it must itself be an event in the universe it describes.
What the painter adds to the canvas are the days of his life. The adventure of living, hurtling toward death.
Absurd, irreducible; nothing--not even a profound and secret delirium of nature--could explain [a tree root].
I don't care whether animals are capable of thinking; all I care about is that they are capable of suffering!
Our reason arises, at the very least, from this twofold lesson of sensuous revelations and human testimonies.
The spontaneous power of the child, his demand for self-expression, can not by any possibility be suppressed.
Thinking is the accurate and deliberate instituting of connections between what is done and its consequences.
To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures generally content themselves with the title.
In many cases it is a matter for decision and not a simple matter of fact whether x understands y; and so on.
There is an imaginary circle drawn around every human being, over which no government should be able to step.
The study of science teaches young men to think, while study of the classics teaches them to express thought.
The sole evidence it is possible to produce that anything is desirable, is that people do actually desire it.
The feeling of a direct responsibility of the individual to God is almost wholly a creation of Protestantism.
I am a machine, condemned to devour them and then, throw them, in a changed form, on the dunghill of history.
I am stretching out this volume, since those German dogs estimate the value of books by their cubic contents.
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
Those who seek knowledge, collect something every day. Those who seek the Way, let go of something every day.
He who knows how to be aggressive, and yet remains patient, becomes a receptacle for all of Nature's lessons.
Why separate your spiritual life and your practical life? To an integral being, there is no such distinction.
Kindness in thought leads to wisdom. Kindness in speech leads to eloquence. Kindness in action leads to love.
The (method of) correction shall by a turn become distortion, and the good in it shall by a turn become evil.
Nothing on earth is so weak and yielding as water, but for breaking down the firm and strong it has no equal.
Who is there who can make muddy waters clear? But if allowed to remain still, it will gradually clear itself.
Anarchism misunderstands the real nature of man. It would be practicable only in a world of angels and saints
The wealth of the well-to-do of an industrial society is both the cause and effect of the masses' well-being.
The classifications made by philosophers and psychologists are like trying to classify clouds by their shape.
The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language.
It is an hypothesis that the sun will rise tomorrow: and this means that we do not know whether it will rise.