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The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves.
Fear not; the things that you are afraid of are quite likely to happen to you, but they are nothing to be afraid of.
You can't *discover* that the brain is a digital computer. You can only *interpret* the brain as a digital computer.
Laws and systems of polity always begin by recognizing the relations they find already existing between individuals.
The despotism of custom is on the wane. We are not content to know that things are; we ask whether they ought to be.
Christianity was preached by ignorant men and believed by servants, and that is why it resembles nothing ever known.
Language comes into being, like consciousness, from the basic need, from the scantiest intercourse with other human.
I have spoken to Einstein and he admitted to me that his theory was in fact no different from the one of Parmenides.
The history of science is everywhere speculative. It is a marvelous hiatory. It makes you proud to be a human being.
When you extend your goodwill in every direction, regardless of circumstances, you begin to see that we are all one.
There is nothing softer and weaker than water, and yet there is nothing better for attacking hard and strong things.
There is no greater mistake than to make light of an enemy By making light of an enemy many a kingdom has been lost.
For the thinker the world is a thought; for the wit, an image; for the enthusiast, a dream; for the inquirer, truth.
The entrepreneur profits to the extent he has succeeded in serving the consumers better than other people have done.
In the bureaucratic machine of socialism the way toward promotion is not achievement but the favor of the superiors.
A country becomes more prosperous in proportion to the rise in the invested capital unit per unit of its population.
To understand a sentence means to understand a language. To understand a language means to be master of a technique.
Can there be greater foolishness than the respect you pay to people collectively when you despise them individually?
If only every man would make proper use of his strength and do his utmost, he need never regret his limited ability.
Aristoteles quidem ait: 'Omnes ingeniosos melancholicos esse.' Aristotle says that all men of genius are melancholy.
Are wars anything but the means whereby a nation is nourished, whereby it is strengthened, whereby it is buttressed?
All forms of violence are quests for identity. When you live on the frontier, you have no identity. You're a nobody.
Our technology forces us to live mythically, but we continue to think fragmentarily, and on single, separate planes.
You should carefully observe the way toward which your heart draws you, then choose this way with all your strength.
The ultimate function of art is to make men do what they want to do, as it is to make them recognize what they know.
Socrates reminds us that it is not the same thing, but almost the opposite, to understand religion and to accept it.
[The sensate body possesses] an art of interrogating the sensible according to its own wishes, an inspired exegesis.
Remember this: all suffering comes to an end. And whatever you suffer authentically, God has suffered from it first.
Economics is not an attempt to generalize human desires or human behavior; but to generalize the phenomena of price.
As the archaeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.
Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, persists after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.
I am an atheist. I don't think there's anything divine. Beautiful, impressive, awe-inspiring - sure, but not divine.
Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.
What we call ideology is precisely the confusion of linguistic with natural reality, of reference with phenomenalism
Since ancient times, philosophers have maintained that to strive too hard for one's own happiness is self-defeating.
All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals.
You certainly wouldn’t want to invest much time in an argument with someone who would believe it in the first place.
Your creatures can come into being only, like shoot from stem, as part of an endlessly renewed process of evolution.
For ideas to prevail, many of their defenders have to die in obscurity. Their anonymous influence makes itself felt.
We obtain better knowledge of a person during one hour's play and games than by conversing with him for a whole year
The gods created certain kinds of beings to replenish our bodies... they are the trees and the plants and the seeds.
And the true order of going, or being led by another, to the things of love, is to begin from the beauties of earth.
Much sleep is not required by nature, either for our souls or bodies, or for the action in which they are concerned.
A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants.
Nature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know.
Respect gods before demigods, heroes before men, and first among men your parents; but respect yourself most of all.
Are not couturiers the poets who, from year to year, from strophe to strophe, write the anthem of the feminine body?
Let us be cautious in making assertions and critical in examining them, but tolerant in permitting linguistic forms.
To truly know the world, look deeply within your own being; to truly know yourself, take real interest in the world.
Geometry is knowledge that appears to be produced by human beings, yet whose meaning is totally independent of them.