To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream not only plan, but also believe.
Happiness is the longing for repetition.
Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.
No emancipation without that of society.
If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.
The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.
The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead.
Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.
The artist can wish for nothing better than blunt friends and polite enemies.
Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.
Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.
Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.
Upon the progress of knowledge the whole progress of the human race is immediately dependent: he who retards that, hinders this also.
Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
Of what I am, I know no more than that I am, but here no tie is necessary between subject and object. My own being is this tie, I am at once the subject knowing, and the object known of; and this reflection or return of the knowledge on itself is what I designate by the term I, if I have any determinate meaning.
Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
By mere burial man arrives not at bliss and in the future life, throughout its whole infinite range, they will seek for happiness as vainly as they sought it here, who seek it in aught else than that which so closely surrounds them here - the Infinite.
We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best.
When a woman learned to read, the woman question arose in the world.
Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
The infinitely smallest part of space is always a space, something endowed with continuity, not at all a mere point or the boundary between specified places in space.
If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.
History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.
How goodness heightens beauty!
Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also.
All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.
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