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Society is like a schoolmaster who estimates boys according to their conformity to a standard that is easiest for running a school.
Men forget where the way leads and what they meet with every day seems strange to them.We should not act and speak like men asleep.
'Perfect justice rules the world' for the Powers that are superior to us know the whole life of the Soul and all its' former lives.
It is possible to argue that our present conception of revolution was staked out more securely in science than in political action.
It is often necessary to make a decision on the basis of knowledge sufficient for action but insufficient to satisfy the intellect.
He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
All false art, all vain wisdom, lasts its time but finally destroys itself, and its highest culture is also the epoch of its decay.
Technique has taken over the whole of civilization. Death, procreation, birth all submit to technical efficiency and systemization.
What makes man most unhappy is to be deprived not of that which he had, but of that which he did not have, and did not really know.
Every woman is like a time-zone. She is a nocturnal fragment of your journey. She brings you unflaggingly closer to the next night.
Postmodernity is the simultaneity of the destruction of earlier values and their reconstruction. It is renovation within ruination.
It is the corpse of the bourgeoisie that separates us. With us, it is that class that is the carrier of the chromosome of banality.
When we love and respect people, revealing to them their value, they can begin to come out from behind the walls that protect them.
Look at your own poverty welcome it cherish it don't be afraid share your death because thus you will share your love and your life
...in respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.
Childhood has it's own way of seeing, thinking, and feeling, and nothing is more foolish than to try to substitute ours for theirs.
Ah, that is a perfume in which I delight; when they roast coffee near my house, I hasten to open the door to take in all the aroma.
The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.
The English people think they are free; they are greatly deceived; they are free only during the election of members of Parliament.
The truths of the Scriptures are so marked and inimitable, that the inventor would be more of a miraculous character than the hero.
There is a period of life when we go back as we advance. [Fr., Il est un terme de la vie au-dela duquel en retrograde en avancant.]
The [Communist] Party has one objective: the creation of a socialist economy; and one means: the utilization of the class struggle.
Good digestions, the gray monotony of provincial life, and the boredom-ah the soul-destroying boredom-of long days of mild content.
The idea is essentially repulsive, of a society held together only by the relations and feelings arising out of pecuniary interest.
A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.
Men play at tragedy because they do not believe in the reality of the tragedy which is actually being staged in the civilised world
There is no easy method of learning difficult things. The method is to close the door, give out that you are not at home, and work.
A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth.
The liberation cannot be reached but by means of the perception of the identity of the individual spirit with the universal spirit.
Simplicity has no name is free of desires. Being free of desires it is tranquil. And the world will be at peace of it's own accord.
The True Person benefits yet expects no reward, does the work and moves on. There is no desire to be considered better than others.
They can see their neighbors. Roosters and dogs can be heard from there. Still, they will age and die without visiting one another.
When the government is quite unobtrusive, people are indeed pure. When the government is quite prying, people are indeed conniving.
The clarification of our political ideas insensibly changes into and becomes indistinguishable from the history of political ideas.
Public works are not accomplished by the miraculous power of a magic wand. They are paid for by funds taken away from the citizens.
Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things.
As the science of economics...exploded the fallacies of every brand of utopianism, it was outlawed and stigmatized as unscientific.
In spite of the anticapitalistic policies of all governments and of almost all political parties, the capitalist mode of production
It is labor alone that is productive: it creates wealth and therewith lays the outward foundations for the inward flowering of man.
If one understands eternity as timelessness, and not as an unending timespan, then whoever lives in the present lives for all time.
The first bond of society is the marriage tie; the next our children; then the whole family of our house, and all things in common.
I cheerfully quit from life as if it were an inn, not a home; for Nature has given us a hostelry in which to sojourn, not to abide.
Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed (from friendship). [Lat., Assentatio, vitiorum adjutrix, procul amoveatur.]
There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften. [Lat., Nullus dolor est quem non longinquitas temporis minuat ac molliat.]
As the scale of the balance must give way to the weight that presses it down, so the mind must of necessity yield to demonstration.
It's no use trying to talk philosophy to our politicians. And I'm not a moral or political philosopher. I'm not interested in that.
Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.
The victory over Euclidean space was not achieved by isolated individuals, but by a field of young rebels opposed to all absolutes.
I know that I will be punished just as much for being an itty-bitty feminist as for going the whole way. And so I go the whole way.
Women have had the power of naming stolen from us. We have not been free to use our own power to name ourselves, the world, or God.