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The little child learns to speak, though it has no learned teachers - because it lives with those who know how to speak.
The proprietor of stock is necessarily a citizen of the world, and is not necessarily attached to any particular country.
The most sacred duty, the supreme and urgent work, is to deliver humanity from the malediction of Cain - fratricidal war.
To go out of your mind at least once a day is tremendously important. By going out of your mind, you come to your senses.
There is a peculiar contradiction in trying to be a member of a republic while believing that the universe is a monarchy.
You find out that the universe is a system that creeps up on itself and says 'Boo' and then laughs at itself for jumping.
The present non-aristotelian system is based on fundamental negative premises; namely, the complete denial of 'identity.'
When there is no middle class, and the poor greatly exceed in number, troubles arise, and the state soon comes to an end.
One may go wrong in many different ways, but right only in one, which is why it is easy to fail and difficult to succeed.
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
Human life, like all inferior goods, is covered on the outside with a false glitter; what suffers always conceals itself.
What makes people hard-hearted is this, that each man has, or fancies he has, as much as he can bear in his own troubles.
Consciousness is the mere surface of our minds, of which, as of the earth, we do not know the inside, but only the crust.
Music is the answer to the mystery of life. The most profound of all the arts, It expresses the deepest thoughts of life.
The idea, which constitutes the actual being of the human mind, is not simple, but compounded of a great number of ideas.
Those who advocate common usage in philosophy sometimes speak in a manner that suggests the mystique of the 'common man.'
The teaching of Christ, as it appears in the Gospels, has had extraordinarily little to do with the ethics of Christians.
Heretical views arise when the truth is uncertain, and it is only when the truth is uncertain that censorship is invoked.
This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the second chance were offered me.
The atomic bomb embodies the results of a combination genius and patience as remarkable as any in the history of mankind.
It is not by delusion, however exalted, that mankind can prosper, but only by unswerving courage in the pursuit of truth.
Physics, owing to the simplicity of its subject matter, has reached a higher state of development than any other science.
In any closet, you can find it, if it is too small, or out of style, or there is just one of it where there should be two
Hosts of merchants encumber the cities, and the streets are cluttered with solicitors who swarm without limit or purpose.
I do not want a friend who smiles when I smile, who weeps when I weep; for my shadow in the pool can do better than that.
He who needs only coarse food, water and drink, and as pillow his folded arms will find happiness without further search.
Human beings and their actions constitute the advancing front, the surging crest of an ongoing movement that never stops.
Reelection ought not to be the primary preoccupation of any politician. It ought to be standing up for truth and justice.
All individuals have the same value, not to be determined by market price. They're made in the image and likeness of God.
Martin Luther King wanted to be morally consistent and speak out against various things that were wrong, not just racism.
When we pass through what we call death, we do not loose the world. Indeed, we see it for the first time as it really is.
Keep Darwinian thinking out of cosmology, out of psychology, out of human culture, out of ethics, politics, and religion!
I am ready to reject all belief and reasoning, and can look upon no opinion even as more probable or likely than another.
Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said he - That when they speak truth they are not believed.
A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come.
And the great question for mankind is what is to be loved or hated next, whenever and old love or fear has lost its hold.
It will not be possible to rule out the supposition that the process of evolution may be guided by an intelligent design.
There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.
Art supplies constantly to contemplation what nature seldom affords in concrete experience - the union of life and peace.
A great man need not be virtuous, nor his opinions right, but he must have a firm mind, a distinctive luminous character.
Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy.
Something in the world forces us to think. This something is an object not of recognition but of a fundamental encounter.
Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life.
Philosophy is regarded by many as inseparable from speculation. ... Philosophy has proceeded from speculation to science.
Realism is in the work when idealism is in the soul, and it is only through idealism that we resume contact with reality.
There is exchange of all things for fire and of fire for all things, as there is of wares for gold and of gold for wares.
Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to human welfare.
We have unmistakable proof that throughout all past time, there has been a ceaseless devouring of the weak by the strong.