Good sense and genius beget esteem and regard: Wit and humour excite love and affection.
It is through fraternity that liberty is saved.
The scholar is that man who must take up into himself all the ability of the time, all the contributions of the past, all the hopes of the future.
Man can climb to the highest summits; but he cannot dwell there long.
In each of us there is a little of all of us.
For the foolish, not reason but advantage is the teacher.
The first and fundamental resistance is that of the spirit. It means resisting the intimidation of any lie asserted as truth, the contagion of any collective intoxication.
We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.
What does certainty prove?
If you want to make peace there must be two people, you yourself and the neighbor opposite.
I have never met a man so ignorant that I could not learn something from him.
My body is that part of the world which my thoughts can change. Even imaginary illnesses can become real ones. In the rest of the world, my hypotheses cannot change the order of things.
The love of democracy is that of equality.
The Other is on principle inapprehensible; he flees me when I seek him and possesses me when I flee him.
“I possess nothing,” said Siddhartha, “if that is what you mean. I am certainly without possession, but of my own free will, so I am not in need.”
Things which are without measure may not long endure.
For the use of words, and thus of a book, is to point beyond themselves to a world of life and experience that is not mere words or even ideas. Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life.
Don’t wait for Plato’s Republic! Rather, be content if one tiny thing makes some progress, and reflect on the fact that what results from this tiny thing is no tiny thing at all!
Have I done a neighbourly act? I am thereby benefited.
It is very obvious that we are not influenced by “facts” but by our interpretation of the facts.
Act so that the effects of your action are compatible with the permanence of genuine human life.
When I had all the answers, the questions changed.
It is greed to do all the talking and not be willing to listen.
He who discovers the path to people’s hearts will have done much for his time.
Ethics is the aesthetics of the inside.
We all err, but everybody errs differently.
Virtue is its own reward.
I have only one passion, that for light, in the name of humanity which has suffered so much and which has the right to happiness.
Peoples once accustomed to masters are not in a condition to do without them.
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