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Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.
The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.
They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases.
We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.
If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.
Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back.
Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter.
I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.
My interest in biology was pretty much always on the philosophical side.
He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.
Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived.
Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
The old harlot, German philosophy, has finally turned into a church lady.
Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.
Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.
Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.
Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.
There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.
The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.
There was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently
Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.
Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.
Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.
Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason.
There's something in life that's a curtain, and I keep trying to raise it.
Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.
Think I'll flip a coin, I'm a winner either way Mmmmmm, I feel lucky today
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
The silkworm spins out his life, and, wrapping himself in his labor, dies.
Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.
The world is a philosophical prison and Man is the philosophical prisoner.
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
But in philosophy, sometimes the baby ought to go out with the bath water.
Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.
A microscopic phantom of the universe; this is all that we are able to be.
In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.
The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.
You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.
Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?
Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.
Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.
There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.