Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
That action is best which procures the greatest happiness.
Alliance does not mean love, any more than war means hate.
To have found God is not an end but in itself a beginning.
All language is rhetorical, and even the senses are poets.
You never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies.
Is it not first through the voice that one becomes animal?
There is in the universe neither center nor circumference.
The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.
Every end in history necessarily contains a new beginning.
The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true.
For excellence, the presence of others is always required.
The blessing of life as a wholecan never be found in work.
Nietzsche ... has caused [philosophers] so much confusion.
I basically only read books that are over 2,000 years old.
Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science
In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.
The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.
Every man, however little, makes a figure in his own eyes.
What was scattered, gathers. What was gathered, blows away
The nature of things is in the habit of concealing itself.
If we do not expect the unexpected, we will never find it.
The outcomes are in incredible need more prominent desire.
The wise man can change his mind; the stubborn one, never.
Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.
Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done
Duty is the necessity to act out of reverence for the law.
Freedom for the wolves has often meant death to the sheep.
I don't want to die of some disease I want to die of death
A man of courage flees forward in the midst of new things.
Challenge, and not desire, lies at the heart of seduction.
The one thing we do not know is the limit of the knowable.
All through life a man has need of a counsellor and guide.
Religious persecutors are not believers, they are rascals.
The apparent ease with which children learn is their ruin.
L'homme est une passion inutile. Man is a useless passion.
The question is not can animals speak but can they suffer.
The best preparation for the future is a well-spent today.
All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.
To be free means to be lacking in constitutive identity...
[T]o know means to reach the reality of existing things[.]
Delicacy is to the affections what grace is to the beauty.
I think that every sexual position is fundamentally comic.
Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.
The more powerful the work, the more powerless the worker.
Change the economic base and you will change human beings.
Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.
A man cannot become a child again, or he becomes childish.
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
Solve it before it happens. Order it before chaos emerges.