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As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.
Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.
The Few assume to be the deputies, but they are often only the despoilers of the Many.
Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.
Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.
Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved.
To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.
Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires.
I'm not from a milieu where high-register language or philosophical ideas were welcome.
The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.
The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.
Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.
None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.
And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.
In my downtime, for fun, I engage in philosophical internet debates. Yeah, I'm that guy.
The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.
Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.
Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.
What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.
I veer more toward the philosophical and the poetic than I do toward the alert and angry.
In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.
The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.
Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
With respect to ingenious subconsciousness, I think, philosophers might well rival poets.
Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.
I was once a skeptic but was converted by the two missionaries on either side of my nose.
It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.
Until philosophers hold power, neither states nor individuals will have rest from trouble.
A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.
The digitization of our society is a challenge that is both legislative and philosophical.
Though boys throw stones at frogs in sport, the frogs do not die in sport, but in earnest.
Technology at present is covert philosophy; the point is to make it overtly philosophical.
Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental.
When you are laboring for others, let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.
An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.
We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.
Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
With my full philosophical rucksack I can only climb slowly up the mountain of mathematics.
They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed.