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.
The ignorant knows nothing, the party member does not want to know anything.
Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.
Chance is necessity hidden behind a veil.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it.
If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward.
Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.
Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.
Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.
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