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A climb of eight hundred feet starts where the foot stands.
The tree which fills the arms grew from the tiniest sprout.
Liberalism must be intolerant of every sort of intolerance.
The eternal life is given to those who live in the present.
We see, not change of aspect, but change of interpretation.
The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.
You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.
One must always be prepared to learn something totally new.
In finances, be strict with yourself, generous with others.
Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.
The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
The absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature.
The higher our position the more modestly we should behave.
Let every man practise the trade which he best understands.
The roots of knowledge are bitter, but its fruit are sweet.
Only the stupid and the wicked can fear rational criticism.
Original philosophy is always "deviant" or even subversive.
Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.
Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
Technology is that which separates us from our environment.
In large measure, writing is the spatialization of thought.
I don't want them to believe me, I just want them to think.
There is no more great men; there is only great committees.
Whatever God does, the first outburst is always compassion.
For then I knew my soul - every soul - has always held Him.
Benevolence is one of the distinguishing characters of man.
If the king loves music, there is little wrong in the land.
The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth.
Democracy is a system where people are counted not weighed.
But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
Beyond the desert of criticism, we wish to be called again.
God considers not the action, but the spirit of the action.
No attempt should be made to cure the body without the soul
Justice is nothing more than the advantage of the stronger.
...that not life, but a good life, is to be chiefly valued.
Can any man be courageous who has the fear of death in him?
Man is the plumeless genus of bipeds, birds are the plumed.
It is beautiful to wish to add another's light to your own.
Declining from the public ways, walk in unfrequented paths.
So tutor youth that the sins of age be not imputed to thee.
Political thought in France is either nostalgic or Utopian.
How can you be certain that your whole life is not a dream?
...knowledge of material reality is the knowledge of death.
Who speaks is not who writes, and who writes is not who is.
A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.
Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
We gain so much by quickness, and lose so much by slowness.
It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.