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All law is situational law. The sovereign produces and guarantees the situation in its totality. He has the monopoly over this last decision.
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone might be looking. Hear and you forget, see and you remember, do and you understand.
And as a Christian, I got something the world didn't give me, the world can't take away, so I find joy that can never be reduced to anything.
Natural selection is not gene centrist and nor is biology all about genes; our comprehending minds are a result of our fast evolving culture.
La poe sie veutquelque chose d'e norme, debarbare et de sauvage. Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
Do not travel to other dusty lands, forsaking your own sitting place; if you cannot find the truth where you are now, you will never find it.
Your body is like a dew-drop on the morning grass, your life is as brief as a flash of lightning. Momentary and vain, it is lost in a moment.
As the possessor of complete knowledge, God is not mistaken about people's experiences as people are mistaken about each others' experiences.
Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalist environment. The crypto-businessman is the true revolutionary in a Communist country.
Some people have no original ideas because they do not think well enough of themselves to consider their ideas worth noticing and developing.
What Pascal said of an effective religion is true of any effective doctrine: it must be "contrary to nature, to common sense and to pleasure.
In order to qualify as a judgment, an affirmation must aim at getting it right aptly, through competence, and not just through a lucky guess.
Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.
The poetic image […] is not an echo of the past. On the contrary: through the brilliance of any image, the distant past resounds with echoes.
It is through the intentionality of poetic imagination that the poet's soul discovers the opening of consciousness common to all true poetry.
Music and love are the only accomplishments of humanity which do not, in an absolute sense, have to be called attempts with unsuitable means.
All things are in the Universe, and the universe is in all things: we in it, and it in us; in this way everything concurs in a perfect unity.
The climax of terror is reached when the police state begins to devour its own children, when yesterday's executioner becomes today's victim.
Logic is the art of thinking well: the mind, like the body, requires to be trained before it can use its powers in the most advantageous way.
Contemporary industrial society is now characterised more than ever by "the need for stupefying work where it is no longer a real necessity."
We too often forget that not only is there 'a soul of goodness in things evil,' but very generally also, a soul of truth in things erroneous.
The more we come in contact with animals and observe their behaviour, the more we love them, for we see how great is their care of the young.
A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.
I assert that, in any particular natural science, one encounters genuine scientific substance only to the extent that mathematics is present.
If the group is an art form of the future, then convening groups is an artistry we must cultivate to fully harvest the promise of the future.
Actually, when I write, there is a feeling of necessity, of something that is stronger than myself that demands that I must write as I write.
In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning.
But remain the teacher of the young teachers. Advise and direct us, and we will be ready to learn. I will have need of you as long as I live.
A human being who wakened in the morning with a queesy stomach, with fifteen hours to kill before next bedtime, had not much use for freedom.
Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.
Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.
Virtue is everywhere that which is thought praiseworthy; and nothing else but that which has the allowance of public esteem is called virtue.
It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.
In my view, aiming at simplicity and lucidity is a moral duty of all intellectuals: lack of clarity is a sin, and pretentiousness is a crime.
The initial stage, the act of conceiving or inventing a theory, seems to me neither to call for logical analysis nor to be susceptible of it.
Conversation doesn’t have to lead to consensus about anything especially not values; it’s enough that it helps people get used to one another
Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success. Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream.
My words are very easy to understand and very easy to practice; but there is no one in the world who is able to understand and practice them.
I have three treasures that I cherish. The first is compassion. The second is moderation. The third is not claiming to be first in the world.
In dreams, through longings, we can see— All latent in the dust of gold These forests that perhaps could be— But that will never, ever, grow.
Faith is essentially intolerant ... essentially because necessarily bound up with faith is the illusion that one's cause is also God's cause.
Christianity has in fact long vanished, not only from the reason but also from the life of mankind, and it is nothing more than a fixed idea.
Every government intervention [in the marketplace] creates unintended consequences, which lead to calls for further government interventions.
The main political problem is how to prevent the police power from becoming tyrannical. This is the meaning of all the struggles for liberty.
A French politician once wrote that it was a peculiarity of the French language that in it words occur in the order in which one thinks them.
If, for example, you were to think more deeply about death, then it would be truly strange if, in so doing, you did not encounter new images.
An acute first-class brain is the finest asset anyone can have- and, if we want to be happy, it is an asset we must exploit to the uttermost.
The man who commands efficiently must have obeyed others in the past, and the man who obeys dutifully is worthy of someday being a commander.
You might as well take the sun out of the sky as friendship from life: for the immortal gods have given us nothing better or more delightful.
To be endowed with strength by nature, to be actuated by the powers of the mind, and to have a certain spirit almost divine infused into you.