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Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
It is likely that America will be more important during the next century or two, but after that it may well be the turn of China.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
The satisfaction to be derived from success in a great constructive enterprise is one of the most massive that life has to offer.
If the State does not acquire supremacy over [vast private] enterprises, it becomes their puppet, and they become the real State.
Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.
A man of Seville is shaved by the Barber of Seville if and only if the man does not shave himself. Does the barber shave himself?
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
The most beautiful sight in the world is a little child going confidently down the road of life after you have shown him the way.
A good man regards the root; he fixes the root, and ail else flows out of it. The root is filial piety; the fruit brotherly love.
He who is really good can never be unhappy. He who is really wise can never be perplexed. He who is really brave is never afraid.
If some years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Yi, and then I might come to be without great faults.
The dynamic, creative present, however conditioned and restricted by the effects of prior presents, possesses genuine initiative.
Barack Obama has domesticated the left in such a way that we feel as if we have no alternative but him...I refuse to accept that.
Martin Luther King was not a Marxist or a communist, but his radical love leads him to put poor and working people at the center.
Make disciples. Surround them in the reality of the Trinity in a fellowship of disciples. Teach them to do everything Jesus says.
I believe that every human being is sufficiently depraved that when we get to heaven, no one will be able to say, I merited this.
I'm the guy who reputedly denies that people experience colors or pains, and thinks that thermostats think — just ask my critics.
We like to assume that language is a purely human property, our exclusive possession, and that everything else is basically mute.
That which is injurious loses its capacity to harm when it is brought into the light, and we attract to us that which we emanate.
Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.
Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence.
Which is the greater merit, to enlighten the human race, which remains forever, or to save one's fatherland, which is perishable?
When some one reminded him that the people of Sinope had sentenced him to exile, he said, "And I sentenced them to stay at home."
Arcesilaus had a peculiar habit while conversing of using the expression, "My opinion is," and "So and so will not agree to this.
Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not?
It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.
Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority.
A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.
When cowardice becomes a fashion its adherents are without number, and it masquerades as forbearance, reasonableness and whatnot.
A man's soul is pierced as it were with holes, and as his longings flow through each they are transmuted into something specific.
As a world view, Darwinism cannot of course be refuted, since Faith is, always has been, and always will be, stronger than facts.
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Nature is none other than God in all things. Animals and plants are living effects of Nature; Whence all of God is in all things.
I beg you, reject antiquity, tradition, faith, and authority! Let us begin anew by doubting everything we assume has been proven!
The single spirit doth simultaneously temper the whole together; this is the single soul of all things; all are filled with God .
Surely if we have learned anything from the history of morals it is that the thing to do with a moral quandary is not to hide it.
the fateful equating of power with violence, of the political with government, and of government with a necessary evil has begun.
The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.
Life is an apprenticeship to the constant renunciations, to the steady failure of our claims, our hopes, our powers, our liberty.
In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.
The present stage redefines the possibilities of man and nature in accordance with the new means available for their realization.
Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.
Philosophy stands in need of a science which shall determine the possibility, principles, and extent of human knowledge à priori.
In loving things and the being in them man should rather draw things up to the human level than reduce humanity to their measure.
One has never said better how much "humanism", "normality", "quality of life" were nothing but the vicissitudes of profitability.
One of the marvelous things about community is that it enables us to welcome and help people in a way we couldn't as individuals.
Presence of mind, penetration, fine observation, are the sciences of women; ability to avail themselves of these is their talent.
I have never believed that man's freedom consisted in doing what he wants, but rather in never doing what he does not want to do.