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There is only one virtue, justice; only one duty, to be happy; only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to fear death.
As houses well stored with provisions are likely to be full of mice, so the bodies of those that eat much are full of diseases.
Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.
There is a radicalism in all getting, and a conservatism in all keeping. Lovemaking is radical, while marriage is conservative.
Every nation thinks its own madness normal and requisite; more passion and more fancy it calls folly, less it calls imbecility.
Poetry is an attenuation, a rehandling, an echo of crude experience; it is itself a theoretic vision of things at arm's length.
Without the ontological assumption which goes with it, what is called science, is nothing but the dreamer's well-ordered dream.
As for being responsible or irresponsible, we don't recognize those notions, they're for policemen and courtroom psychiatrists.
Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.
Every organization of men, be it social or political, ultimately relies on man's capacity for making promises and keeping them.
Only a completely unintelligible God can be said to be absolutely good and absolutely powerful yet tolerate the world as it is.
Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.
Liberating tolerance, then, would mean intolerance against movements from the Right, and toleration of movements from the Left.
Equity knows no difference of sex. In its vocabulary the word man must be understood in a generic, and not in a specific sense.
India Conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border.
The first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the dominant political languages.
Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so damn serious.
All that is noble in the world's past history, and especially the minds of the great and good, are, in like manner, never lost.
God has so arranged the chronometry of our spirits, that there shall be thousands of silent moments between the striking hours.
If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.
I am struck by how sharing our weakness and difficulties is more nourishing to others than sharing our qualities and successes.
Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.
A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution, even if it takes place in the most honorable form.
It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.
We do not wish to say only that a man is responsible for his own individuality, but that he is responsible for that of all men.
The For-itself, in fact, is nothing but the pure nihilation of the In-itself; it is like a hole of being at the heart of Being.
The first step in freeing men from external chains was to emancipate them from the internal chains of false beliefs and ideals.
As long as politics is the shadow cast on society by big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.
As societies become more complex in structure and resources, the need of formal or intentional teaching and learning increases.
Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.
Though the water running in the fountain be every ones, yet who can doubt, but that in the pitcher is his only who drew it out?
To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.
The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.
It is historically true that a large proportion of infidels in all ages have been persons of distinguished integrity and honor.
The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother's care, shall be in state institutions.
Beauty is the main positive form of the aesthetic assimilation of reality, in which aesthetic ideal finds it direct expression.
Surrender your self-interest. Love others as much as you love yourself. Then you can be entrusted with all things under heaven.
The great Way is easy, yet people prefer the side paths. Be aware when things are out of balance. Stay centered within the Tao.
Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy.
Believers who have formulated such proofs [for God's existence] ... would never have come to believe as a result of such proofs
It's impossible for me to say one word about all that music has meant to me in my life. How, then, can I hope to be understood?
We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves.
The content or message of any particular medium has about as much importance as the stenciling on the casing of an atomic bomb.
In these times I don't, in a manner of speaking, know what I want; perhaps I don't want what I know and want what I don't know.
As long as the firmament of the You is spread over me, the tempests of causality cower at my heels, and whirl of doom congeals.
Those who follow the part of themselves which is great are great men; those who follow the part which is little are little men.
The people turn in allegiance to Humanity, as surely as water flows downward or as a wild animal takes cover in the wilderness.
Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work.
In civilizations without boats, dreams dry up, espionage takes the place of adventure and the police take the place of pirates.
One reader is better than another in proportion as he is able of a greater range of activity in reading and exerts more effort.