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What are your Axioms, and Categories, and Systems, and Aphorisms? Words, words.... Be not the slave of Words.
It is only within a free society that the crucial moral features of human life can be protected and preserved
When I say a vegan diet can be "the healthiest dietary option we can live by," I mean an informed vegan diet.
When we ... devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty, ihen happiness comes of itself.
There are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no difference.
Psychology is a science, and teaching is an art; and sciences never generate arts directly out of themselves.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
What can be explained by the assumption of fewer things is vainly explained by the assumption of more things.
Of two equivalent theories or explanations, all other things being equal, the simpler one is to be preferred.
Great knowledge is universal. Small knowledge is limited. Great words are inspiring; small words are chatter.
He who knows he is a fool is not the biggest fool; He who knows he is confused is not in the worst confusion.
It seems that I have spent my entire life trying to make life more rational and that it was all wasted effort.
Just as the ocean is waving so each one of us is a waving of the whole cosmos, the entire works, all there is.
You can make any human activity into meditation simply by being completely with it and doing it just to do it.
One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.
For a decision-the freest of my actions just happens like hiccups inside me or like a bird singing outside me.
I am the same kind of moron as the rest of you, it's the method that does the work, for me as well as for you.
Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.
Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.
It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.
The rattle is a toy suited to the infant mind, and education is a rattle or toy for children of larger growth.
Since music has so much to do with the molding of character, it is necessary that we teach it to our children.
The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.
The young should early be trained to bear being left alone; for it is a source of happiness and peace of mind.
I believe that when death closes our eyes we shall awaken to a light, of which our sunlight is but the shadow.
Thus also every keen pleasure is an error and an illusion, for no attained wish can give lasting satisfaction.
To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.
Art matures. It is the formal elaboration of activity, complete in its own pattern. It is a cosmos of its own.
If we try and fail, we have temporary disappointments. But if we do not try at all, we have permanent regrets.
I am myself a dissenter from all known religions, and I hope that every kind of religious belief will die out.
Change is scientific; progress is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy.
As soon as we abandon our own reason, and are content to rely upon authority, there is no end to our troubles.
Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results.
In spreading his ideas, Plato was willing to employ emotional appeals, state propaganda, and the use of force.
Civilization is a social plague on the planet, and vices are just as necessary to it as is a virus to disease.
In old days men studied for the sake of self-improvement; nowadays men study in order to impress other people.
The main object of conciliation lies in reaching a solution to a case based upon morals and with a warm heart.
Listen widely to remove your doubts and be careful when speaking about the rest and your mistakes will be few.
Wouldst thou know if a people be well governed, or if its laws be good or bad, examine the music it practices.
Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists.
If your main goal is to show that your heart is in the right place, then your heart is not in the right place.
Nature and education are somewhat similar. The latter transforms man, and in so doing creates a second nature.
Poor mind, from the senses you take your arguments, and then want to defeat them? Your victory is your defeat.
All things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard for anyone's feelings.
Shakespeare's fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.
You will become a teacher of yourself when for the same things that you blame others, you also blame yourself.
The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust.
A successful social technique consists perhaps in finding unobjectionable means for individual self-assertion.
In a modern society people can live without hope only when kept dazed and out of breath by incessant hustling.