The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.
Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God.
Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.
No great thing is created suddenly.
Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.
A man of courage is also full of faith.
A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.
His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.
I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.
It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.
The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul.
Who, being loved, is poor?
Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
By indignities men come to dignities.
War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.
He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.
When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.
The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.
The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.
The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.
He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors but they are seldom or ever inventors.
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.
The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.
While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.
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