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- There is no supernatural, there is only nature. Nature alone exists and contains all. All is. There is the part of nature that we perceive,…
- The clouds, - the only birds that never sleep.
- In the animal world no creature born to be a dove turns into a scavenger. This happens only among men.
- With a tiny bit of effort, the nettle would be useful; if you neglect it, it becomes a pest. So then we kill it. How…
- My coat and I live comfortably togther. It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere, has moulded itself on my deformities, and…
- In short, I am doing what I can, I suffer with the same universal suffering, and I try to assuage it, I possess only the…
- I only take a half share in the civil war; I am willing to die, I am not willing to kill.
- What dangers you run, O noble souls! Often, you give your heart, but we take only your body. Your heart is left to you and…
- It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive. Why should it exaggerate? There is that which should be destroyed and that which…
- Right is right only when entire.
- All roads are blocked to a philosophy which reduces everything to the word 'no.' To 'no' there is only one answer and that is 'yes.
- Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast…
- A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.
- Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see…
- There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us…
- We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and…
- The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high…
- I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by…
- The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now…
- These are true felicities. No joy beyond these joys. Love is the only ecstasy, everything else weeps
- The eye of a man should be still more reverent before the rising of a young maiden than before the rising of a star. The…
- Jean Prouvaire was timid only in repose. Once excited, he burst forth, a sort of mirth accentuated his enthusiasm, and he was at once both…
- Gavroche had fallen only to rise again; he sat up, a long stream of blood rolled down his face, he raised both arms in air,…
- Diamonds are found only in the dark bowels of the earth; truths are found only in the depths of thought. It seemed to him that…
- There are no weeds, and no worthless men. There are only bad farmers.
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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
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- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
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