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- Philosophy is harmonized knowledge making a harmonious life; it is the self-discipline which lifts us to serenity and freedom. Knowledge is power, but only wisdom…
- Even when repressed, inequality grows; only the man who is below the average in economic ability desires equality; those who are conscious of superior ability…
- We have conferred a mystic popularity upon officials whose only virtue is their timidity; while our scorn of rebels and reformers is so great that…
- The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character, the only real emancipation is individual, and the only…
- Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us, but because they will laugh at us; Through them we learn a little objectivity,…
- Forced to choose, the poor, like the rich, love money more than political liberty; and the only political freedom capable of enduring is one that…
- Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
- There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
- If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and…
- Tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty; certainty is murderous.
- by and large the poor have the same impulses as the rich, with only less opportunity or skill to implement them
- Knowledge is power but only wisdom is liberty.
- The Institutional Church (ecclesia) has killed only two kinds of people: Those who do not believe in the teachings of Jesus Christ, and those who…
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