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Hate is able to provoke disorders, to ruin a social organization, to cast a country into a period of bloody revolutions; but it produces nothing.
So too Plato was, in my view, a very unreliable Platonist. He was too much of a philosopher to think that anything he had said was the last word.
The good things in history are usually of very short duration, but afterward have a decisive influence on what happens over long periods of time.
Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.
It is hardly possible to estimate how many marriages fail to prosper or are actually ruined because the man lacks any inkling of the art of love.
A single observation that is inconsistent with some generalization points to the falsehood of the generalization, and thereby 'points to itself'.
There is something splendid about innocence; but what is bad about it, in turn, is that it cannot protect itself very well and is easily seduced.
Of all the arts poetry (which owes its origin almost entirely to genius and will least be guided by precept or example) maintains the first rank.
The desire not to be impinged upon, to be left to oneself, has been the markof high civilisation both on the part of individuals and communities.
I say things that contradict each other, that are in real tension with each other, that compose me, that make me live, and that will make me die.
I wanted the moments of my life to follow and order themselves like those of a life remembered. You might as well try and catch time by the tail.
I do not think that any thorough-going modification of college curriculum would be possible without a modification of the methods of instruction.
Man is not permitted without censure to follow his own thoughts in the search of truth, when they lead him ever so little out of the common road.
Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love.
The idea of public reason isn't about the right answers to all these questions, but about the kinds of reasons that they ought to be answered by.
The idea of public reason has to do with how questions should be decided, but it doesn't tell you what are the good reasons or correct decisions.
It is as certain that many opinions, now general, will be rejected by future ages, as it is that many, once general, are rejected by the present.
I well knew that to propose something which would be called extreme, was the true way not to impede but to facilitate a more moderate experiment.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
We fall in love when our imagination projects nonexistent perfection upon another person. One day, the fantasy evaporates and with it, love dies.
That which is the foundation of all our hopes and of all our fears; all our hopes and fears which are of any consideration; I mean a Future Life.
No man has ceased to believe in God before having decided that he should not exist; no book would produce atheism, and no book can restore faith.
I do think it's important that we experiment with new vocabularies. That new words help us conceptualize our social existence in a different way.
As, in religion, man is governed by the products of his own brain, so in capitalistic production, he is governed by the products of his own hand.
Her (India's) great curse is caste; but English education has already proved a tremendous power in levelling the injurious distinctions of caste.
...The sage, traveling all day, Does not lose sight of his baggage. Though there are beautiful things to be seen, He remains unattached and calm.
In ancient times, people said that imperfect moves to becoming perfect. Are these words vain? No! Truly, by gaining Unity you come to Perfection!
When the Way governs the world, the proud stallions drag dung carriages. When the Way is lost to the world, war horses are bred outside the city.
Education to perfect gentlemanship, to human excellence, liberal education consists in reminding oneself of human excellence, of human greatness.
[E]conomic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics
It is merely a metaphor to call competition competitive war, or simply, war. The function of battle is destruction; of competition, construction.
Private property creates for the individual a sphere in which he is free of the state. It sets limits to the operation of the authoritarian will.
Daily experience proves clearly to everybody but the most bigoted fanatics of socialism that governmental management is inefficient and wasteful.
The only source of the generation of additional capital goods is saving. If all the goods produced are consumed, no new capital comes into being.
Servile labour disappeared because it could not stand the competition of free labour; its un-profitability sealed its doom in the market economy.
A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.
Here the term 'language-game' is meant to bring into prominence the fact that the speaking of language is part of an activity, of a form of life.
Government is in reality established by the few; and these few assume the consent of all the rest, without any such consent being actually given.
We suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!
Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.
I am pleased to be praised by a man so praised as you, father. [Words used by Hector.] [Lat., Laetus sum Laudari me abs te, pater, laudato viro.]
The artist is the person who invents the means to bridge between biological inheritance and the environments created by technological innovation.
The literate man is a sucker for propaganda...You cannot propagandize a native. You can sell him rum and trinkets, but you cannot sell him ideas.
All meaning alters with acceleration, because all patterns of personal and political interdependence change with any acceleration of information.
Until writing was invented, man lived in acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, in the dark of the mind, in the world of emotion.
The genteel is a mighty catafalque of service-with-a-smile and flattering solicitude smothering every spontaneous movement of thought or feeling.
When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. When they want to tell the public what to get, they say it in curves.
Spiritual superiority [consists in] deep dedication ... in the form of the most rigorous training, as commitment, resistance, solitude, and love.
Almost everything has been stolen from us by the patriarchy. Our creativity has been stolen, our creative energies, our religion. I want it back.
It is almost inconceivable that citizens of that time were willing to support so bloody a war, by putting so high a price upon Union and Liberty.