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The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.
All that is true, by whomsoever it has been said has its origin in the Spirit.
What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.
When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.
It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.
Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.
Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.
Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.
Wise men ne'er sit and wail their woes, but presently prevent the ways to wail.
Take the time to smell the roses. Sooner or later, you'll inhale a bee and die.
The child and the poet know that Reality is what does not need to be realistic.
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex.
Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.
But in simple substances the influence of one monad over another is ideal only.
Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
Nor is it strange That after changes upon changes, we are more or less the same
Philosophy still moves too much straight ahead, and is not yet cyclical enough.
Plato's Symposium shows that flirtation and philosophy can further one another.
The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.
We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.
What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?
For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.
Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.
Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.
Fine. Since the tea is not forthcoming, let's have a philosophical conversation.
Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.
Whenever you're pissed off, just remember that it's better than being pissed on.
Reason has, especially today, many other manifestations than philosophical ones.
Every philosophical review ought to be a philosophy of reviews at the same time.
God is not found in the soul by adding anything but by a process of subtraction.
Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.
I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.
Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.
Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
The point of a philosophical spirit is to rely primarily upon one's own thinking.
I am not certain of the hereafter. Frankly, I'm not all that certain of the here.
He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.
It has been said that to write is to live forever. The man who said that is dead.
The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.
Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.
It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.