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What governments call international monetary cooperation is concerted action for the sake of credit expansion.
It is a common saying that many pecks of salt must be eaten before the duties of friendship can be discharged.
No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good.
It is the stain and disgrace of the age to envy virtue, and to be anxious to crush the very flower of dignity.
All genuine philosophy transcends national boundaries. Patriotic philosophies are just nationalist ideologies.
If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.
The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf.
Youth instinctively understand the present environment - the electric drama. It lives mythically and in depth.
The logos of creation, 'And God Said ...' formed the basis of Christian interpretation of the 'Book of Nature.
Of the many unforeseen consequences of typography, the emergence of nationalism is, perhaps, the most familiar
Only those who develop their minds and spirits to the utmost can serve Heaven and fulfill their own destinies.
The myriad things are complete in us. There is no greater joy than to reflect on ourselves and become sincere.
Sports events do not really exist at all unless there is a certain order and fairness - justice in each event.
Evolution is a religion. This was true of evolution in the beginning, and it is true of evolution still today.
Madness, in its wild, untamable words, proclaims its own meaning; in its chimeras, it utters its secret truth.
To be sure, the vast majority of people who are untrained can accept the results of science only on authority.
The race struggle is the primal one, and the class struggle secondary. The last dominating race is the German.
Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell.
But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave.
You find yourself in the world, without any power, immovable as a rock, stupid, so to speak, as a log of wood.
There has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity because Christianity proceeds from a proclamation.
The body is the soul's house. Shouldn't we therefore take care of our house so that it doesn't fall into ruin?
Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes.
For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.
Lessons, however, that enter the soul against its will never grow roots and will never be preserved inside it.
Those who practice philosophy in the right way are in training for dying and they fear death least of all men.
Much more wretched than lackof health inthe body, it is to dwell with a soul that is not healthy, but corrupt.
The wisest of you men is he who has realized, like Socrates, that in respect of wisdom he is really worthless.
The learning and knowledge that we have,is,at the most,but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
Arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up.
How do we know that anything really exists, that anything is really the way it seems ot us through our senses?
Why are philosophers intent on forcing others to believe things? Is that a nice way to behave towards someone?
There is a deep human need for beauty and if you ignore that need in architecture your buildings will not last
The first effect of modernism was to make high culture difficult: to surround beauty with a wall of erudition.
Wine is not just an object of pleasure, but an object of knowledge; and the pleasure depends on the knowledge.
Work for legal reform takes place only within the framework of the social form created by the last revolution.
Poverty with joy isn't poverty at all. The poor man is not one who has little, but one who hankers after more.
A disease is farther on the road to being cured when it breaks forth from concealment and manifests its power.
Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
When you want success as badly as you want the air, then you will get it. There is no other secret of success.
Often when looking at a mass of things for sale, he would say to himself, 'How many things I have no need of!'
Whenever a number of individuals have a common name, we assume them to have also a corresponding idea or form.
To be a woman is something so strange, so confusing and so complicated that only a woman could put up with it.
My scholarly expectation is then that I may succeed in becoming clever in philosophy in spite of my stupidity.
Don't rely on your mind for liberation. It is the mind that brought you into bondage. Go beyond it altogether.
The consciousness in you and the consciousness in me, apparently two, really one, seek unity and that is love.
The search for Reality is the most dangerous of all undertakings, for it destroys the world in which you live.
To find reality you must be real in the smallest daily action; there can be no deceit in the search for truth.
Fire is a natural symbol of life and passion, though it is the one element in which nothing can actually live.