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The presumption that any current opinion is not wholly false, gains in strength according to the number of its adherents.
It must be admitted that the conception of virtue cannot be separated from the conception of happiness-producing conduct.
A calamity that makes you turn to Allah is better for you then a blessing which makes you forget the remembrance of Allah
Science cannot destroy the consciousness of freedom, without which there is no morality and no art, but it can refute it.
I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on all the roles.
Our triumphs seem hollow unless we have friends to share them, and our failures are made bearable by their understanding.
Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust.
Animals have no unconscious, because they have a territory. Men have only had an unconscious since they lost a territory.
To invite others to live with us is a sign that we aren't afraid, that we have a treasure of truth and of peace to share.
The man who gets the most out of life is not the one who has lived it longest, but the one who has felt life most deeply.
A madman's ravings are absurd in relation to the situation in which he finds himself, but not in relation to his madness.
The addability of the happiness of different subjects is a postulum without which all political reasonings are at a stand
The philosophers have always given truth a bill of divorce, by separating what nature has joined together and vice versa.
Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment.
In general, every stimulus directs activity. It does not simply excite it or stir it up, but directs it toward an object.
All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
[E]ach person is to have an equal right to the most extensive basic liberty compatible with a similar liberty for others.
Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.
Happiness,... even the smallest happiness, is like a step out of Time, and the greatest happiness is sharing in Eternity.
There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original.
Every provisional political set-up following a revolution requires a dictatorship, and an energetic dictatorship at that.
The true law of economics is chance, and we learned people arbitrarily seize on a few moments and establish them as laws.
The English Established Church... will more readily pardon an attack on 38 of its 39 articles than on 1/39 of its income.
That the soft overcomes the hard, and the yielding overcomes the resistant, is a fact known by all, but practiced by few.
We need to get rid of all remnants of bureaucracy and bureaucratic thinking, and start thinking like entrepreneurs again.
The blues is also existential and offers a sense of mature reflection that enabled it to be the leitmotif of modern life.
It is not as in the Bible, that God created man in his own image. But, on the contrary, man created God in his own image.
Only he is a truly ethical, a truly human being, who has the courage to see through his own religious feelings and needs.
Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.
Our whole civilization rests on the fact that men have always succeeded in beating off the attack of the re-distributors.
How pale is the art of sorcerers, witches, and conjurors when compared with that of the government's Treasury Department!
Socialism and interventionism. Both have in common the goal of subordinating the individual unconditionally to the state.
The average American worker enjoys amenities for which Croesus, Crassus, the Medici, and Louis XIV would have envied him.
Every specific tax, as well as the nation's whole tax system, becomes self-defeating above a certain height of the rates.
Telling someone something he does not understand is pointless, even if you add that he will not be able to understand it.
Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.
Vicious habits are so odious and degrading that they transform the individual who practices them into an incarnate demon.
They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.
The authors who affect contempt for a name in the world put their names to the books which they invite the world to read.
Virtue can procure only an imaginary happiness; true felicity lies only in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them.
It has always been the artist who realizes that the future is the present and uses his work to prepare the grounds for it
The Adequate Protest demands far more than protests. It calls for Great and Daring Leaps of Integrity and Courage to See.
I tell you the truth, any object you have in your mind, however good, will be a barrier between you and the inmost Truth.
Incessant falls teach men to reform, and distress rouses their strength. Life springs from calamity, and death from ease.
If we include hedonistic philosophy in hospitals, the lives of patients suffering from cancer would be much, much better.
Let philosophy resolutely aim to be as scientific as possible, but let her not forget her strong kinship with literature.
I hope to see the bringing together of all the best educated people of the earth into a worldwide Congress of Scientists.
In you, humanity is precarious; and so, in dread and in shame, you kill the animal in you. And its slaughter poisons you.
Grain that is used to feed animals that end up on our tables as turkeys and hams could have gone to feed starving people.