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I do not have enough faith to believe there is no god.
Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.
Do not view mountains from the scale of human thought.
All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.
It needs fanatical faith to rationalize our cowardice.
Capital, like capitalism, seems an overrated category.
The real is the rational and the rational is the real.
A great artist is always before his time or behind it.
We must never assume that which is incapable of proof.
The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive
All beauties are to be honored, but only one embraced.
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past
Order is man's greatest need, and his true well-being.
A great mind will neither give an affront nor bear it.
The coward reckons himself cautious, the miser frugal.
Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death.
There is nothing permanent in the world except change.
Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire
Poetry is language trying to become bodily experience.
A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
The greatest American superstition is belief in facts.
Riches ennoble a man's circumstances, but not himself.
All our knowledge falls with the bounds of experience.
The only thing worse than being bored is being boring.
Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.
Philosophy leads to death, sociology leads to suicide.
Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness
Avoid the poison in your life that brings you turmoil.
He thinks like a philosopher, but governs like a king.
Taste is, so to speak, the microscope of the judgment.
Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.
Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.
I have always been an optimist, perhaps even too much.
Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
Reason must be our last judge and guide in everything.
The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom.
The world is the sum-total of our vital possibilities.
To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.
To be conscious of gratitude is to acknowledge a gift.
Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.
The religious world is but a reflex of the real world.
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.
Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.
The eternal void is filled with infinite possibilities
Without law or compulsion, men would dwell in harmony.
Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.
Attain utmost emptiness. Abide in steadfast stillness.