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- The number of laws is constantly growing in all countries and, owing to this, what is called crime is very often not a crime at…
- Think about death. You do not know how much time remains to you. And remember that if you do not become different, everything will be…
- If a man gives way to all his desires, or panders to them, there will be no inner struggle in him, no 'friction,' no fire.…
- In all living nature (and perhaps also in that which we consider as dead) love is the motive force which drives the creative activity in…
- Besides, all evil is relative. Something that is evil at one level of evolution can be good at an earlier stage because it provides the…
- Learn to see it in thyself and thou wilt understand the infinite essence, hidden in all illusory forms. Understand that the world which thou knowest…
- Love is the eternally burning fire in which humanity & all the world are being purified.
- One cannot keep all the old views and opinions and acquire new ones.
- Man is a machine which reacts blindly to external forces and, this being so, he has no will, and very little control of himself, if…
- Man is a machine, but a very peculiar machine. He is a machine which, in right circumstances, and with right treatment, can know that he…
- There is no possibility of remembering what has been found and understood, and later repeating it to oneself. It disappears as a dream disappears. Perhaps…
- There is something in us that keeps us where we find ourselves. I think this is the most awful thing of all.
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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