Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.
Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.
Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.
We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.
Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly.
The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.
God has entrusted me with myself.
The pain passes, but the beauty remains.
A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.
If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
There is no avoiding war it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
History is the science of things which are not repeated.
That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.
The goal of all life is death.
It is with true love as it is with ghosts everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.
If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.
Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.
Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.
Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
Blessed are the hearts that can bend they shall never be broken.
A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
Will it, and set to work briskly.
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