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- Man is only a moral being because he lives in society, since morality consists in solidarity with the group, and varies according to that solidarity.…
- The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings.
- From top to bottom of the ladder, greed is aroused without knowing where to find ultimate foothold. Nothing can calm it, since its goal is…
- The term suicide is applied to all cases of death resulting directly or indirectly from a positive or negative act of the victim himself, which…
- The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings. His passions are mere appearances, being sterile. They are…
- A monomaniac is a sick person whose mentality is perfectly healthy in all respects but one; he has a single flaw, clearly localized. At times,…
- The roles of art, morality, religion, political faith, science itself are not to repair organic exhaustion nor to provide sound functioning of the organs. All…
- If religion has given birth to all that is essential in society, it is because the idea of society is the soul of religion.
- Man cannot become attached to higher aims and submit to a rule if he sees nothing above him to which he belongs. To free him…
- A religion is a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things, that is to say, things set apart and forbidden-beliefs and practices…
- A society whose members are united by the fact that they think in the same way in regard to the sacred world and its relations…
- A person is not merely a single subject distinguished from all the others. It is especially a being to which is attributed a relative autonomy…
- The human person, whose definition serves as the touchstone according to which good must be distinguished from evil, is considered as sacred, in what one…
- It is inadmissible that systems of ideas like religions, which have held so considerable a place in history, and to which, in all times, men…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle