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Just as every girl should have a husband, preferably her own, so every culture must have its state, preferably its own.
Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.
The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.
I am suspicious without a motive, and jealous without love; although I feel I ought to love since I desire to be loved.
As all Art depends on Vision, so the different kinds of Art depend on the different ways in which minds look at things.
Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art.
To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.
Prayer is not a substitute for work; it is an effort to work further and be efficient beyond the range of one's powers.
why shouldnt things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? they are so, and we are so, and they and we go together.
Why, I say, do so few understand and apprehend the internal power?... He who in himself sees all things, is all things.
Thrift is care and scruple in the spending of one's means. It is not a virtue and it requires neither skill nor talent.
Freedom in the practical sense is the independence of the power of choice from necessitation by impulses of sensibility
The new experience that has replaced dignified suffering is artificially prolonged, opaque, depersonalized maintenance.
The traditional statement about language is that it is in itself living, and that writing is the dead part of language.
The philosopher says that God's knowledge is the measure of things, and that things are the measure of man's knowledge.
Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array, - Days of absence, I am weary; She I love is far away.
Take [Stéphane] Mallarme. I hold him to be the greatest of French poets, and I have taken some time to understand him !
For the time being I have seen enough of living things, of dogs, of men, of all flabby masses which move spontaneously.
What I lacked [in La Nausee] was a sense of reality. I have changed since. I have slowly learned to experience reality.
Every society gets encumbered with what is trivial, with dead wood from the past, and with what is positively perverse.
Marriage is the only actual bondage known to our law. There remain no legal slaves, except the mistress of every house.
All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.
We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.
Usury lives in the pores of production, as it were, just as the gods of Epicurus lived in the space between the worlds.
The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the entire surface of the globe.
So long as the product is sold, everything is taking its regular course from the standpoint of the capitalist producer.
Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.
Faith is nothing else than reason grown courageous - reason raised to its highest power, expanded to its widest vision.
The master accomplishes more and more by doing less and less until finally he accomplishes everything by doing nothing.
Empty your mind of all thoughts. Let your heart be at peace. Watch the turmoil of beings, but contemplate their return.
Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.
Neither the entrepreneurs nor the farmers nor the capitalists determine what has to be produced. The consumers do that.
What pays under capitalism is satisfying the common man, the customer. The more people you satisfy, the better for you.
Those who disagree with the dictator's plan have no other means to carry on than to defeat the despot by force of arms.
The process of induction is the process of assuming the simplest law that can be made to harmonize with our experience.
Proof, one might say, does not merely shew that it is like this, but: how it is like this. It shows how 13+14 yield 27.
It is of great advantage that man should know his station, and not imagine that the whole universe exists only for him.
No form remains permanently in a substance; a constant change takes place, one form is taken off and another is put on.
Artists in various fields are always the first to discover how to enable one medium or to release the power of another.
Only men who are capable of saying Thou [an attitude of deep respect] to one another can truly say we with one another.
To will nothing, then, is ..looking ..for that infinite virtuosity that always enters into the game and always runs off
The object of the state is always the same: to limit the individual, to tame him, to subordinate him, to subjugate him.
For a heart to be perfectly ready it has to be perfectly empty. In this condition it has attained its maximum capacity.
He who can make distinction in God without number or quantity, knows that the three persons of the Trinity are one God.
We who cherish science should be careful to distinguish when we are doing science and when we are extrapolating from it
Truth is not by nature free - nor error servile - but that its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power.
In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.
The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.
God does not exist. He is being-itself beyond essence and existence. Therefore to argue that God exists is to deny him.
The fatal pedagogical error is to throw answers like stones at the heads of those who have not yet asked the questions.