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He who only wishes and hopes does not interfere actively with the course of events and with the shaping of his own destiny.
Society is only possible on these terms, that the individual finds therein a strengthening of his own ego and his own will.
To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war.
The superiority of the gold standard consists in the fact that the value of gold develops independent of political actions.
Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.
It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.
This is our special duty, that if anyone specially needs our help, we should give him such help to the utmost of our power.
There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment.
Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.
Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes.
Prudence must not be expected from a man who is never sober. [Lat., Non est ab homine nunquam sobrio postulanda prudentia.]
What is very little understood about the electronic age is that it angelizes man, disembodies him. Turns him into software.
Medieval and ancient sensibility now dominates our time as acoustic and multisensory awareness displaces the merely visual.
Language always preserves a play or figure/ground relation between experience, and perception and its replay in expression.
The atheist staring from his attic window is often nearer to God than the believer caught up in his own false image of God.
Love is responsibility of an I for a You: in this consists what cannot consist in any feeling - the equality of all lovers.
The soul is created in a place between Time and Eternity: with its highest powers it touches Eternity, with its lower Time.
We really feel happier when things look bleak. Hope is endurance. Hope is holding on and going on and trusting in the Lord.
We are fashioned not by our genes, but by our environment - by the family and socio-historic conditions in which we evolve.
The picture which the philosopher draws of the world is surely not one in which every stroke is necessitated by pure logic.
The question of bread for myself is a material question, but the question of bread for my neighbor is a spiritual question.
The theory, hypothesis, framework, or background knowledge held by an investigator can strongly influence what is observed.
Every true, eternal problem is an equally true, eternal fault; every answer an atonement, every realisation an improvement.
The great man of science, unless he is also a philosopher, ... deserves the title of genius as little as the man of action.
I do not see why I should be polite to tyrants, who slobber of humanitarianism and think only of their own petty interests.
Although there has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity, the hermeneutic question today seems to us a new one.
What sort of love is permeated by jealousy? You are jealous because you are unaware that everything you need is inside you.
At present scientists do not look for alternatives simply because they do not care enough about the animals they are using.
To make sustainable progress in reducing extreme poverty will require improvements in both the quantity and quality of aid.
But tell me, this physician of whom you were just speaking, is he a moneymaker, an earner of fees, or a healer of the sick?
There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless.
Perhaps there is a pattern set up in the heavens for one who desires to see it, and having seen it, to find one in himself.
Few men are so obstinate in their atheism, that a pressing danger will not compel them to acknowledgment of a divine power.
The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
And this is the life of the Gods, and of Godlike men, a life without love of the world, a flight of the Alone to the Alone.
Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.
One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.
The realists do not take the photograph for a 'copy' of reality, but for an emanation of past reality, a magic, not an art.
Goethe's thinking was not rigid with inflexible contours; it was a thinking in which the concepts continually metamorphose.
If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger
The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.
Remember that pain has this most excellent quality. If prolonged it cannot be severe, and if severe it cannot be prolonged.
It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.
God's love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God's love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves.
In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
Electra weeping for the dead Orestes. If we love God while thinking that he does not exist, he will manifest his existence.
Just as you ought not to attempt to cure eyes without head or head without body, so you should not treat body without soul.
Be of good cheer about death and know this as a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death