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Every truth passes through 3 stages before it is recognized 1)ridicule 2) opposition 3) accepted as self-evident.
The only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction.
The word 'right' should be excluded from political language, as the word 'cause' from the language of philosophy.
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
The human mind cannot be absolutely destroyed along with the body, but something of it remains, which is eternal.
Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?
Cruelty is, in theory, a perfectly adequate ground for divorce, but it may be interpreted so as to become absurd.
True happiness for human beings is possible only to those who develop their godlike potentialities to the utmost.
Boys and young men acquire readily the moral sentiments of their social milieu, whatever these sentiments may be.
...Whose souls, albeit in a cloudy memory, yet seek back their good, but, like drunk men, know not the road home.
We live in a century in which everything has been said. The challenge today is to learn which statements to deny.
If a man keeps cherishing his old knowledge so as continually to be acquiring new, he may be a teacher of others.
A gentleman can withstand hardships; it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.
When superiors are fond of showing their humanity, inferiors try to outstrip one another in their practice of it.
It is when those who are not strong enough have made some moderate amount of progress that they fail and give up.
In a district of ten families, there must be someone as honorable and sincere as I, but none as fond of learning.
The act of willing this or that, of choosing among various courses of conduct, is central in the realm of ethics.
When Jesus directs us to pray, "Thy kingdom come," he does not mean we should pray for it to come into existence.
Civilization and the life of nations are governed by the same laws as prevail throughout nature and organic life.
It will always be a fact that the woman is the person one idealizes, also the person who wishes his idealization.
Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
Music is essentially useless, as life is; but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.
An image of thought called philosophy has been formed historically and it effectively stops people from thinking.
To perceive means to immobilize... we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.
Men are guided less by conscience than by glory; and yet the shortest way to glory is to be guided by conscience.
The depersonalizati on of diagnosis and therapy has changed malpractice from an ethical into a technical problem.
To redeem creation the saint wages war on the entire fabric of creation, with the bare weapons of truth and love.
Once you teach people to say what they do not understand, it is easy enough to get them to say anything you like.
Men will argue more philosophically about the human heart; but women will read the heart of man better than they.
Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.
It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual
He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss
Anger is uneasiness or discomposure of the mind upon the receipt of any injury, with a present purpose of revenge
A just society is a society that if you knew everything about it, you'd be willing to enter it in a random place.
There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
In this age, the mere example of nonconformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service.
The successful conduct of an industrial enterprise requires two quite distinct qualifications: fidelity and zeal.
Englishmen learn Christ's law best in English. Moses heard God's law in his own tongue; so did Christ's apostles.
There's a hollowness to civilized life. It doesn't appeal to people, and some people react with extreme violence.
The hero's will is not that of his ancestors nor of his society, but his own. This will to be oneself is heroism.
Science is perhaps the only human activity in which errors are systematically criticized and, in time, corrected.
Now this principle of induction cannot be a purely logical truth like a tautology or an analytic statement. . . .
Some people complain that they will not live forever, but cannot think of things to do on a wet Sunday afternoon.
The leader is a teacher who succeeds without taking credit. And, because credit is not taken, credit is received.
Approach your own inner life with a loving quality that accepts who you are without trying to change who you are.
Never take over the world to tamper with it. Those who want to tamper with it are not fit to take over the world.
The more weapons of violence, the more misery to mankind. The triumph of violence ends in a festival of mourning.
Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
The development of capitalism consists in everyone having the right to serve the consumer better or more cheaply.