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Quotes by Philosopher
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
146
"Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice."
140
"The craving for equality can express itself either as a desire to pull everyone down to our own level (by belittling them, excluding them, tripping them up) or as a desire to raise ourselves up along with everyone else (by acknowledging them, helping them, and rejoicing in their success)."
137
"Under peaceful conditions, the warlike man attacks himself."
132
"Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future."
121
"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."
120
"The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step."
120
"The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night."
119
"Valid questions are better than invalid assumptions."
117
"He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has."
117
"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."
116
"Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity."
115
"Truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short a sum of human relations which have been subjected to poetic and rhetorical intensification, translation and decoration; truths are illusions of which we have forgotten that they are illusions, metaphors which have become worn by frequent use and have lost all sensuous vigour. Yet we still do not know where the drive to truth comes from, for so far we have only heard about the obligation to be truthful which society imposes in order to exist"from, "On Truth and Lying in a Non-Moral Sense"."
113
"Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical."
112
"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work."
110
"My world has just become perfect, midnight is also noonday, pain is also joy, a curse is also a blessing, the night is also a sun " be gone, or you will learn: a wise man is also a fool."
110
"Too often, people think that solving the world's problems is based on conquering the earth, rather than touching the earth, touching ground."
109
"Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder."
108
"If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us."
107
"It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge."
107
"A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies."
106
"It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get."
97
"Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil."
95
"Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society."
95
"Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind."
95
"The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation."
93
"There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original."
91
"I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live."
89
"The more you know yourself, the less you depend on external validation."
87
"A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity."
87
"I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures."
86
"In heaven, all the interesting people are missing."
86
"Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors."
86
"A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour."
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86
"Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss."
85
"The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst."
85
"Freedom is the ultimate value in life. Nothing is higher than that."
85
"The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people."
84
"The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny."
83
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