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Aiming at giving our kids a competitive edge in a consumer society - that, in principle, is a goal that is limitless.
The responsibility of political philosophy that tries to engage with practice is to be clear, or at least accessible.
At every moment, step by step, one must confront what one is thinking and saying with what one is doing, what one is.
I have never considered myself a poet. Therefore, I am not a rival of anyone, and I do not consider anybody my rival.
...in the third epoch the divinity of man's creative nature is finally revealed and divine power becomes human power.
We are not capable of producing a concept of time that is at once cosmological, biological, historical and individual
All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering, the animals are our equals.
Even in non-democratic countries, people have a legitimate interest in knowing about actions taken by the government.
Gardens are enclosed areas in which plants and arts meet. They form 'cultures' in an uncompromised sense of the word.
Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.
The qualities which a man seeks in his beloved are those characteristics of his own soul, whether he knows it or not.
Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.
The fear of death is indeed the pretence of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown.
I should not like to say ... that any kind of knowledge is not to be learned; for all knowledge appears to be a good.
Truth is the most unbending and uncompliable, the most necessary, firm, immutable, and adamantine thing in the world.
Mathematics is a more powerful instrument of knowledge than any other that has been bequeathed to us by human agency.
What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid.
What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.
The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.
If you live according to nature, you never will be poor; if according to the world's caprice, you will never be rich.
Do you desire not to be angry? Be not inquisitive. He who inquires what is said of him only works out his own misery.
What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
It’s in the very trickery that it pleases me. But show me how the trick is done, and I have lost my interest therein.
I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
Men trust their eyes rather than their ears; the road by precept is long and tedious, by example short and effectual.
He that by harshness of nature rules his family with an iron hand is as truly a tyrant as he who misgoverns a nation.
Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
Four things belong to a judge: to hear courteously, to answer wisely, to consider soberly, and to decide impartially.
The individual leads in order that those who are led can develop their potential as human beings and thereby prosper.
If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.
With respect to physical existence, one needs little, and to the degree that one needs less, the more perfect one is.
Freedom to do what one likes is really bondage, while being free to do what one must, what is right, is real freedom.
Whatever happens, happens to you by you, through you; you are the creator, enjoyer and destroyer of all you perceive.
One who is afraid of time becomes a prey of time. But time itself becomes a prey of that one who is not afraid of it.
The tension in the world is the tension between the ego and the feminine, not between the masculine and the feminine.
It is the people who are 'far out' who are gaining advantage in the evolutionary jostling for efficacious strategies.
Because the planetary culture is becoming ever more closely knitted together all its parts are becoming co-dependent.
Notice that the whole story of Eden is the story of the struggle over a woman's relationship to a psychoactive plant.
Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk.
Genuine Work alone, what thou workest faithfully, that is eternal, as the Almighty Founder and World-Builder himself.
Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.
A battle is a terrible conjugation of the verb to kill: I kill, thou killest, he kills, we kill, they kill, all kill.
The beginning of all wisdom is to look fixedly on clothes, or even with armed eyesight, till they become transparent.
A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.
Of all Discourse , governed by desire of Knowledge, there is at last an End , either by attaining, or by giving over.
Truth is one species of good, and not, as is usually supposed, a category distinct from good, and co-ordinate with it
All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
When you concentrate on agriculture and industry and are frugal in expenditures, Heaven cannot impoverish your state.
It appears, then, that ethics, as a branch of knowledge, is nothing more than a department of psychologyand sociology.
The tenor of my life has been the opposite of everything that is vile, and no man can lay any such thing to my charge.