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Farmers are philosophical. They have learned that it is less wearing to shrug than to beat their breasts.
No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.
I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body : they transmit movement to it.
There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.
It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
There are many of these apparent philosophical paradoxes or contradictions which don't concern me anymore.
Philosophical thinking that doesn't do violence to one's settled mind is no philosophical thinking at all.
For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.
... we can bear with great philosophy the sufferings of others, especially if we do not actually see them.
There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
Philosophical questions and modes of thought just seem natural to me. They mesh with the way my mind works.
This seems to me a philosophical question, and therefore irrelevant, question. A poet's destiny is to love.
The spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child's delight in bright pictures.
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
There are things I have wanted so long that I would only consent to have them if I could keep wanting them.
You need Power, only when you want to do something harmful otherwise Love is enough to get everything done.
To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe.
There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.
To philosophical materialists God is no more than an idea in the human mind, and not a very important idea.
He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy.
Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.
Reason well from the beginning and then there will never be any need to look back with confusion and doubt.
To ridicule philosophy is truly philosophical. [Fr., Se moquer de la philosophie c'est vraiment philosophe.]
When appearance and reality coincide, philosophy and literary criticism find themselves with nothing to say.
I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.
If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.
To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.
I believe that a psychological, cultural, and philosophical migration back to Africa will solve our problem.
Happiness lies in virtuous activity, and perfect happiness lies in the best activity, which is contemplative
Put a chair against the door, and turn the lights down low Write a letter to yourself, no one will ever know
There is no tomorrow. There is only a planet turning on its axis, and a creature given to optimistic fancies.
Everyone has an enemy. It's why God gave us baseball bats. Well, He gave us trees, but we knew what He meant.
I like to read all kinds of books ranging from spiritual, philosophical, to best-sellers and crime thrillers.
The so-called mysteries of quantum mechanics are in its philosophical interpretation, not in its mathematics.
It is an hypothesis that the sun will rise tomorrow: and this means that we do not know whether it will rise.
The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language.
Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.
The learning and knowledge that we have,is,at the most,but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease.
Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.
The sense of historical continuity, and a feeling for philosophical rectitude cannot, however, be compromised.
So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken.
The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.
I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment
Man never legislates,but destinies and accidents,happening in all sorts of ways,legislate in all sorts of ways.
It is very significant that some of the most thoughtful and cultured men are partisans of a pure vegetable diet
A state arises,as I conceive,out of the needs of mankind;no one is self-sufficing,but all of us have many wants
I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.