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Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.
There are mountains hidden in mountains. There are mountains hidden in hiddenness. This is complete understanding.
Isnt it the very last thing we feel grateful for - having happened? You needn't have happened. But you did happen.
A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.
Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts.
Often, the thing we pursue most passionately is but a substitute for the one thing we really want and cannot have.
It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate.
There is always a chance that he who sets himself up as his brother's keeper will end up by being his jail-keeper.
Resistance, whether to one's appetites or to the ways of the world, is a chief factor in the shaping of character.
Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life.
Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious.
All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand.
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.
The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about.
Culture is on the horns of this dilemma: if profound and noble it must remain rare, if common it must become mean.
Children are natural mythologists: they beg to be told tales, and love not only to invent but to enact falsehoods.
Injustice in this world is not something comparative; the wrong is deep, clear, and absolute in each private fate.
Revolutions are the only political events which confront us directly and inevitably with the problem of beginning.
The mind must have for ballast the clear conception of duty, if it is not to fluctuate between levity and despair.
When everything has its proper place in our minds, we are able to stand in equilibrium with the rest of the world.
Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.
No sane person should believe that something is subjective merely because it cannot be settled beyond controversy.
I believe in the religion of Love, whatever direction its caravans may take, for Love is my religion and my faith.
A sentence is made up of words, a statement is made in words.... Statements are made, words or sentences are used.
All that is noble in the world's past history, and especially the minds of the great and the good, are never lost.
Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.
Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.
The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.
It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual.
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
The real process of education should be the process of learning to think through the application of real problems.
Schools should take an active part in directing social change, and share in the construction of a new social order
I believe that in the ideal school we have the reconciliation of the individualistic and the institutional ideals.
That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art.
Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed.
I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.
This is unfortunately a world in which things find it difficult, frequently impossible, to live up to their names.
I wonder about economic sanctions, though, since that is a way that states engage in boycotts against one another.
We're trying to divide groups or decide that some of them are truly victims and some of them are truly aggressors.
The war brought things to a head, exposing the utter falsity and rottenness of Kautskyism from its very first day.
The capitalist cannot store labour-power in warehouses after he has bought it, as he may do with the raw material.
It is wrong to ask who will rule. The ability to vote a bad government out of office is enough. That is democracy.
In ancient times, those who followed the Way did not try to give people knowledge thereof, but kept them ignorant.
The Wise Man is square but not sharp, honest but not not malign, straight but not severe, bright but not dazzling.
Those who praise victory relish manslaughter. Those who relish manslaughter cannot reach their goals in the world.
Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.
No people and no part of a people shall be held against its will in a political association that it does not want.
Those politicians, professors and union bosses who curse big business are fighting for a lower standard of living.