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- There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
- The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.
- To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being.
- The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.
- To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking.
- Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
- One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental…
- 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…
- If this life is not a real fight, in which something is eternally gained for the universe by success, it is no better than a…
- It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
- There are two lives, the natural and the spiritual, and we must lose the one before we can participate in the other.
- To suggest personal will and effort to one all sicklied o'er with the sense of irremediable impotence is to suggest the most impossible of things.…
- Good-humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to Nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us. I…
- If you wish to upset the law that all crows are black, you mustn't seek to show that no crows are; it is enough if…
- The one who thinks over his experiences most, and weaves them into systematic relations with each other, will be the one with the best memory.
- Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases, and opposite conclusions prompted by our instinctive perception of them.
- Or if the hypothesis were offered us of a world in which Messrs. Fourier's and Bellamy's and Morris's Utopias should all be outdone, and millions…
- Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture.
- Fatalism, whose solving word in all crises of behavior is All striving is vain, will never reign supreme, for the impulse to take life strivingly…
- Man, biologically considered, and whatever else he may be in the bargain, is simply the most formidable of all the beasts of prey, and, indeed,…
- Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism. In heroism, we feel, life's supreme mystery is…
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- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
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- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — 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 defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — 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
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle