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Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle...
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.
Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature
In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.
A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
To hate, to love, to think, to feel, to see; all this is nothing but to perceive.
If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.
Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.
People should not worry so much about what they do but rather about what they are.
Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it.
Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.
Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.
Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.
Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.
Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.
Logic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic.
Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.
Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
The most important thing you do everyday you live is deciding not to kill yourself.
Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
Given the credible estimate that we've spent $1 trillion on anti-terrorism security
Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.
While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.
There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.
Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.
No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.
Philosophical discussions habitually make men happy and joyful not frowning and sad.
A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.
I have infinite knowledge that there is no being in existence with infinite knowledge
Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.
There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.
No argument for abortion survives scientific, philosophical, or theological scrutiny.
What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common.
What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.
Men who are lovers of wisdom [i.e., philosophers] must be inquirers into many things.
I don't really give into all that philosophical talks that 'money is not everything.'
Any political or philosophical agenda can and will be perverted by power and/or fear.
Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.
Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.
Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.
Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.
The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.
Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.