Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.
All is said, we have come too late; for more than seven thousand years there have been men, thinking.
Simplicity can only exist in what is true.
He who is born to obey will obey even on the throne.
'Know yourself' is the whole of science. Only at the end of the perception of all things will man have recognized himself. For things are only the borders of man.
An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
Formation, transformation, The eternal mind's eternal recreation.
Each life makes its destiny.
There are no contradictions in nature.
The absurd is born of the confrontation between the human call and the unreasonable silence of the world.
Clarity is the politeness of the man of letters.
Nobody wants to introduce as many reforms as children do.
Only truth can face injustice. Truth, or love.
We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to comes.
Anybody can become angry, that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way, that is not within everybody's power, that is not easy.
The confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth to much of that which we have in others.
Learn to know yourself, and descend into yourself.
There is no real action without will.
The first sigh of childhood is for liberty.
Art is the most beautiful of all lies.
A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.
One characteristic of the symbol is that it is never wholly arbitrary; it is not empty, for there is the rudiment of a natural bond between the signifier and the signified. The symbol of justice, a pair of scales, could not be replaced by just any other symbol, such as a chariot.
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
Never confuse movement with action.
Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes.
Where does this idea come from? It is like a pair of glasses on our nose through which we see whatever we look at. It never occurs to us to take them off.
Are you a new strength and a new right? A first motion? A self-rolling wheel? Can you even compel the stars to revolve around you?
When you have time you have freedom.
In the happiness of others I seek my own.
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