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So there might be a kind of collective effort that allows for those risks to be taken, pose a certain danger but not a suicidal one.
Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.
Men can see nothing around them that is not their own image; everything speaks to them of themselves. Their very landscape is alive.
Heaven and earth are ruthless, and treat the various creatures as straw dogs; the sage is ruthless, and treats others as straw dogs.
The most powerful weapon known is the weapon of blessing. Therefore, a clever person relies on it. He wins with peace, not with war.
The living are soft and yielding; the dead are rigid and stiff. Living plants are flexible and tender; the dead are brittle and dry.
The whole of mankind's progress has had to be achieved against the resistance and opposition of the state and its power of coercion.
Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man.
The word "Capitalism" expresses, for our age, the sum of all evil. Even the opponents of Socialism are dominated by socialist ideas.
Inflation is an increase in the quantity of money without a corresponding increase in the demand for money, i.e., for cash holdings.
[M]an is fulfilling the purpose of existence who no longer needs to have any purpose except to live. That is to say, who is content.
From a historical viewpoint, religion is just a kind of superstition, and from a political viewpoint it is a tool of social control.
To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.
It is not the opinions or the vices of private individuals that are harmful to the State, but rather the behavior of public figures.
Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication.
Radio affects most intimately, person-to-person, offering a world of unspoken communication between writer-speaker and the listener.
I know that everything essential and great originated from the fact that the human being had a homeland and was rooted in tradition.
Time-space as commonly understood, in the sense of the distance measured between two time-points, is the result of time calculation.
If God is male, then male is God. The divine patriarch castrates women as long as he is allowed to live on in the human imagination.
A teacher in search of his/her own freedom may be the only kind of teacher who can arouse young persons to go in search of their own
To be properly expressed a thing must proceed from within, moved by its form: it must come, not in from without but out from within.
Little information is published on prisons, it is one of the hidden regions of our social system, one of the dark zones of our life.
The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
I am concerned, rather, that there should not be more things dreamt of in my philosophy than there actually are in heaven and earth.
My dear, it is a great strength to have faced the worst and to have *felt* it a feature of beauty. Nothing ever after can shake one.
It is not the fear of death which creates the desire for immortality, but the desire for immortality which causes the fear of death.
Copernicanism and other essential ingredients of modern science survived only because reason was frequently overruled in their past.
Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.
Long before the awakening of thought on earth, manifestations of cosmic energy must have been produced which have no parallel today.
Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.
What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose.
Just as bees make honey from thyme, the strongest and driest of herbs, so do the wise profit from the most difficult of experiences.
Follow your dream as long as you live, do not lessen the time of following desire, for wasting time is an abomination of the spirit.
Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.
The physician, to the extent he is a physician, considers only the good of the patient in what he prescribes, and his own not at all
We must close our eyes and invoke a new manner of seeing...a wakefulness that is the birthright of us all, though few put it to use.
We ought so to behave to one another as to avoid making enemies of our friends, and at the same time to make friends of our enemies.
Today there is no symbolic compensation for old age, no recognition of a specific value: wisdom, perceptiveness, experience, vision.
Language is neither reactionary nor progressive; it is quite simply fascist; for fascism does not prevent speech, it compels speech.
Tomorrow the revolution will already 'raise itself with a rattle' and announce with fanfare, to your terror: I was, I am, I will be!
There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.
Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar, it never fails of doing justice upon itself; for every guilty person is his own hangman.
Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
Life is never incomplete if it is an honorable one. At whatever point you leave life, if you leave it in the right way, it is whole.
We are more wicked together than separately. If you are forced to be in a crowd, then most of all you should withdraw into yourself.
I guess what happens to a lot of people as they get older is that they get more conservative, but with me, the opposite is the case.
The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.
The speed with which bureaucracy has invaded almost every branch of human activity is something astounding once one thinks about it.
The Delphic Oracle said I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because that I alone, of all the Greeks, know that I know nothing.
I prefer to be refuted than to refute, for it is a greater good for oneself to be freed from the greatest evil than to free another.