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He that makes use of another's fancy or necessity to sell ribbons or cloth dearer to him than to another man at the same time, cheats him.
All errors which a man is likely to commit against advice are far outweighed by the evil of allowing others to constrain him for his good.
As a beast of toil an ox is fixed capital. If he is eaten, he no longer functions as an instrument of labour, nor as fixed capital either.
The question is not how to get good people to rule; THE QUESTION IS: HOW TO STOP THE POWERFUL from doing as much damage as they can to us.
Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.
The truly wise are content to be last. They are, therefore, first. They are indifferent to themselves. They are, therefore self-confident.
Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream.
To bear the country's disgrace is to rule the shrines of soil and grain. To bear the country's misfortunes is to be the king of the world.
In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.
The more prohibitions there are, the poorer the people will be. The more laws are promulgated, the more thieves and bandits there will be.
Through return to simple living comes control of desires. In control of desires stillness is attained. In stillness the world is restored.
Approach the universe with Tao, And evil will have no power. Not that evil is not powerful, But its power will not be used to harm others.
The task of the modern era was the realization and humanization of God – the transformation and dissolution of theology into anthropology.
Every collectivist assumes a different source for the collective will, according to his own political, religious and national convictions.
If it is unnecessary to adjust the amount of expenditure to the means available, there is no limit to the spending of the great god State.
Under capitalism the common man enjoys amenities which in ages gone by were unknown and therefore inaccessible even to the richest people.
It is obvious that an imagined # world , however different it may be from the real one, must have something - a form - in common with it.
Religion is, as it were, the calm bottom of the sea at its deepest point, which remains calm however high the waves on the surface may be.
In the world everything is as it is and happens as it does happen. In it, there is no value, - and if there were, it would be of no value.
These so-called governments are in reality only great bands of robbers and murderers, organized, disciplined, and constantly on the alert.
To the totality of purposes of the perfect Law there belong the abandonment, depreciation, and restraint of desires in so far as possible.
Business leaders love the humanities because they know that to innovate you need more than rote knowledge. You need a trained imagination.
I think that's what we really need in America, for people to hear each other. And I think philosophy could do a little bit better on that.
To look away from the world, or to stare at it, does not help a man to reach God; but he who sees the world in Him stands in His presence.
This much is certain: when a man is happy, happy to the core and root of beatitude, he is no longer conscious of himself or anything else.
If we keep our eyes fixed on God alone, then truly he must work in us and nothing, neither the crowd nor any place can hinder him in this.
A trail through the mountains, if used, becomes a path in a short time, but, if unused, becomes blocked by grass in an equally short time.
The relief of suffering is a great good. The curing of illness and disease - these are great human goods. This is the mission of medicine.
The most defenseless tenderness and the bloodiest of powers have a similar need of confession. Western man has become a confessing animal.
An educated person is one who, through the travail of his own life, has assimilated the ideas that make him representative of his culture.
There is faith in every serious doubt, namely, the faith in the truth as such, even if the only truth we can express is our lack of truth.
Since the last decades of the nineteenth century, revolt against the objectified world has determined the character of art and literature.
If we all think only of our own interests, we are headed for collective disaster - just look at what we are doing to our planet's climate.
God is not remote from us. He is at the point of my pen, my (pick) shovel, my paint brush, my (sewing) needle - and my heart and thoughts.
To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without really being wise, for it is to think that we know what we do not know.
Not one of them who took up in his youth with this opinion that there are no gods ever continued until old age faithful to his conviction.
Truth is so great a perfection, that if God would render himself visible to men, he would choose light for his body and truth for his soul
Some who are far from atheists, may make themselves merry with that conceit of thousands of spirits dancing at once upon a needle's point.
Through the pursuit of beauty we shape the world as a home, and in doing so we both amplify our joys and find consolation for our sorrows.
Freedom only for the members of the government, only for the members of the Party - though they are quite numerous - is no freedom at all.
The only knowledge which satisfies us is one which is subject to no external standards but springs from the inner life of the personality.
Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.
War, which perpetuates itself under the form of preparation for war, has once and for all given the State an important role in production.
All essential knowledge relates to existence, or only such knowledge as has an essential relationship to existence is essential knowledge.
If the ethical - that is, social morality- is the highest ... then no categories are needed other than the Greek philosophical categories.
You are not what you think yourself to be, I assure you. The image you have of yourself is made up from memories and is purely accidental.
To go beyond the mind, you must be silent and quiet. Peace and silence, silence and peace - this is the way beyond. Stop asking questions.
When you desire the common good, the whole world desires with you. Make humanity's desire your own and work for it. There you cannot fail.
Let the dream unroll itself to its very end. You cannot help it. But you can look at the dream as a dream, refuse it the stamp of reality.
What we call imagination is actually the universal library of what's real. You couldn’t imagine it if it weren’t real somewhere, sometime.