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A certain kind of permission is given to live differently, to conceptualize and to act according to a new conceptualization.
There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery
Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.
In capitalist society spare time is acquired for one class by converting the whole life-time of the masses into labour-time.
But capitalist production begets,with the inexorability of a law of Nature,its own negation. It is the negation of negation.
We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than only freedom can make security more secure.
It is not possible to write clearly enough to avoid being misrepresented by people who are sufficiently determined to do so.
The quest for precision is analogous to the quest for certainty and both - precision and certainty are impossible to attain.
We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.
Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.
The sage is sharp but does not cut, pointed but does not pierce, forthright but does not offend, bright but does not dazzle.
The more laws and restrictions there are, The poorer people become. The sharper men's weapons, The more trouble in the land.
The weak overcomes the strong. The soft overcomes the hard. Everybody in the world knows this, still nobody makes use of it.
ALL things in Nature work silently. They come into being and possess nothing. They fulfil their functions and make no claim.
My words have an origin. My deeds have a sovereign. Truly, because people do not understand this, they do not understand me.
Economic progress is the work of the savers, who accumulate capital, and of the entrepreneurs, who turn capital to new uses.
Assistance granted to the unemployed does not dispose of unemployment. It makes it easier for the unemployed to remain idle.
It is indeed one of the principal drawbacks of every kind of interventionism that it is so difficult to reverse the process.
This sort of thing has got to be stopped. Bad philosophers are like slum landlords. It's my job to put them out of business.
We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all.
Is it even always an advantage to replace an indistinct picture by a sharp one? Isn't the indistinct one often what we need?
The wise man knows nothing if he cannot benefit from his wisdom. Wisdom is not only to be acquired, but also to be utilized.
Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transition.
Tokenism does not change stereotypes of social systems but works to preserve them, since it dulls the revolutionary impulse.
The soul at its highest is found like God, but an angel gives a closer idea of Him. That is all an angel is: an idea of God.
People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.
Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.
Life is a struggle and not a matter of privilege. It is nothing but one's knowledge of the temporal and the spiritual world.
Our soul is not united to our body in the ordinary sense of these terms. It is immediately and directly united to God alone.
Not only are facts and theories in constant disharmony, they are never as neatly separated as everyone makes them out to be.
Animal factories are one more sign of the extent to which our technological capacities have advanced faster than our ethics.
Learning is by nature curiosity... prying into everything, reluctant to leave anything, material or immaterial, unexplained.
What paralyzes life is lack of faith and lack of audacity. The difficulty lies not in solving problems but identifying them.
The most empowering relationships are those in which each partner lifts the other to a higher possession of their own being.
Death is acceptable only if it represents the physically necessary passage toward a union, the condition of a metamorphosis.
From a purely positivist point of view, man is the most mysterious and disconcerting of all the objects met with by science.
More will be accomplished, and better, and with more ease, if every man does what he is best fitted to do, and nothing else.
The soul takes flight to the world that is invisible but there arriving she is sure of bliss and forever dwells in paradise.
Wonder [said Socrates] is very much the affection of a philosopher; for there is no other beginning of philosophy than this.
He who is learning and learning and doesn't apply what he knows is like the one who is plowing and plowing and doesn't seed.
To fear death, gentlemen, is no other then to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
The Graces sought some holy ground, Whose sight should ever please; And in their search the soul they found Of Aristophanes.
The state is a bankrupt institution. The only alternative to this bankrupt 'humanistic' system is a God-centered government.
What counts as rational argumentation is as historically determined and as context-dependent, as what counts as good French.
Learning appears as a way of staying young, perhaps of staying alive, and also as a way of growing up, perhaps facing death.
Kant's position is extremely subtle - so subtle, indeed, that no commentator seems to agree with any other as to what it is.
In mathematics and science we solve our problems as well as create them. But in art and philosophy things are not so simple.
When one has lost a friend one's eyes should be neither dry nor streaming. Tears, yes, there should be, but not lamentation.
Epicurus says that you should rather have regard to the company with whom you eat and drink, than to what you eat and drink.
It is not how many books thou hast, but how good; careful reading profiteth, while that which is full of variety delighteth.