Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.
Remember that credit is money.
Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.
I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.
Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.
Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.
An overflow of good converts to bad.
Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
Faith is to believe what you do not see the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.
Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.
The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what is being done on the ground to fight poverty, not like going to the zoo but to take action, to open their hearts and their consciences.
The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
Change your opinions, keep to your principles change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.
Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.
Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing meI will be concerned at my own want of ability.
Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.
Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.
Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.
I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.
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