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Failure in the management of practical affairs seems to be a qualification for success in the management of public affairs.
Man's chief goal in life is still to become and stay human, and defend his achievements against the encroachment of nature.
Philosophy is explicitness, generality, orientation and assessment. That which one would insinuate, thereof one must speak.
Muslims are the first victims of Islam. To liberate a Muslim from his religion is the best service that one can render him!
The hunter for aphorisms on human nature has to fish in muddy water, and he is even condemned to find much of his own mind.
To the fantastic mental illness of Rationalism, hard facts are regrettable things, and to talk about them is to create them
There is in every man a certain feeling that he has been what he is from all eternity, and by no means become such in time.
Imagery is not past but present. It rests with what we call our mental processes to place these images in a temporal order.
Spirituality lies in regarding existence merely as a vehicle for contemplation, and contemplation merely a vehicle for joy.
The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.
They must remember that they are constantly on the run, and that the world's reality is actually expressed by their escape.
Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.
Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.
Criticism is above all a gift, an intuition, a matter of tact and flair; it cannot be taught or demonstrated--it is an art.
To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.
To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.
It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.
To be totally engaged with all my functions and all my faculties and all my capacities in life to me that would be success.
To philosophize man must put his whole soul into play, in much the same manner that to run he must use his heart and lungs.
Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.
The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.
The empire of woman is an empire of softness, of address, of complacency. Her commands are caresses, her menaces are tears.
People in their natural state are basically good. But this natural innocence,however, is corrupted by the evils of society.
If I am part of a group of 100 people, do 99 people have the right to sentence me to death, just because they are majority?
Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man
I remembered the way out suggested by a great princess when told that the peasants had no bread: "Well, let them eat cake".
Handing over a bank note is enough to make a bicycle belong to me, but my entire life is needed to realize this possession.
For common minds have an ugly ability to perceive in the deepest and richest saying nothing but their own everyday opinion.
As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where it ends.
The weakness of ourselves and of our reason makes us see flaws in beauties by making us consider everything piece by piece.
I believe that in this way the teacher always is the prophet of the true God and the usherer in of the true kingdom of God.
Popular psychology is a mass of cant, of slush and of superstition worthy of the most flourishing days of the medicine man.
The least and most imperceptible impressions received in our infancy have consequences very important and of long duration.
Dualism makes the problem insoluble; materialism denies the existence of any phenomenon to study, and hence of any problem.
The spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim at forcing improvements on an unwilling people.
Money is a machine for doing quickly and commodiously what would be done, though less quickly and commodiously, without it.
The cynic, a parasite of civilization, lives by denying it, for the very reason that he is convinced that it will not fail.
Modern religious teaching have little or nothing to say about the place of prudence in life or in the hierarchy of virtues.
Gender is an identity tenuously constituted in time, instituted in an exterior space through a stylized repetition of acts.
There are no circumstances imaginable, not even victory, under which the proletariat should give up its possession of arms.
Scientific truth is always paradox, if judged by everyday experience, which catches only the delusive appearance of things.
Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.
Much knowledge will corrupt the heart,/When partly understood,/And so the people grow too smart,/But neither wise nor good.
One who lives in accordance with nature does not go against the way of things but moves in harmony with the present moment.
First, we must do our own personal work, then we tend the necessary work of our family, then our community, then the world.
When the worst student hears about the Way, he laughs out loud. If he did not laugh, it would be unworthy of being the Way.
If someone asks, ‘But what in the end is a philosopher?’ I would say ‘A philosopher is a human being who fights in theory.’
He only is a true atheist to whom the predicates of the Divine Being - for example, love, wisdom and justice - are nothing.
Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.
There cannot be stable money within an environment dominated by ideologies hostile to the preservation of economic freedom.