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Quotes by Philosopher
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
237
"Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice."
195
"The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step."
193
"Under peaceful conditions, the warlike man attacks himself."
187
"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."
183
"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."
182
"There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original."
181
"He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has."
179
"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)."
176
"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."
172
"Valid questions are better than invalid assumptions."
163
"Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical."
162
"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."
157
"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work."
154
"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"."
154
"Too often, people think that solving the world's problems is based on conquering the earth, rather than touching the earth, touching ground."
153
"The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night."
146
"The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny."
140
"Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society."
139
"A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies."
139
"Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil."
138
"The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation."
138
"A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity."
138
"In heaven, all the interesting people are missing."
134
"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."
134
"Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak."
133
"Joy is a loyal companion, love is a faithful friend, fear is a terrible adversary, and hatred is a merciless enemy."
132
"It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge."
132
"Indeed, this epistemological theory of the relation between theory and experiment differs sharply from the epistemological theory of naive falsificationism."
131
"I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live."
131
"The sky belongs to eagles, even during storms."
130
"There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming."
128
"Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder."
128
"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."
127
"If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us."
126
"Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment."
126
"Courage treats the weak better than fear treats the strong."
125
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