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- The man who knows governments most completely is he who troubles himself least about a definition which shall give their essence. Enjoying an intimate acquaintance…
- Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
- The war for our Union, with all the constitutional issues which it settled, and all the military lessons which it gathered in, has throughout its…
- This overcoming of all the usual barriers between the individual and the Absolute is the great mystic achievement. In mystic states we both become one…
- The greatest discovery of the 19th century was not in the realm of the physical sciences, but the power of the subconscious mind touched by…
- Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
- So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end...and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit…
- There is no doubt that healthy-mindedness is inadequate as a philosophical doctrine, because the evil facts which it refuses positively to account for are a…
- All our scientific and philosophic ideals are altars to unknown gods.
- All religions begin with the cry Help.
- Man, biologically considered ... is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own…
- If evolution and the survival of the fittest be true at all, the destruction of prey and of human rivals must have been among the…
- The exercise of prayer, in those who habitually exert it, must be regarded by us doctors as the most adequate and normal of all the…
- Life feels like a real fight - as if there were something really wild in the universe which we, with all our idealities and faithfulnesses,…
- How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they…
- It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an…
- A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
- We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the…
- Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
- The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
- An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
- Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.
- The 'I think' which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the 'I breathe' which actually does accompany them.
- To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking.
- Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by…
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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