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- I divide my time as follows: half the time I sleep, the other half I dream. I never dream when I sleep, for that would…
- Had I to carve an inscription on my tombstone I would ask for none other than "The Individual."
- To despair over one's sins indicates that sin has become or wants to be internally consistent. It wants nothing to do with the good, does…
- How could it occur to anyone to demonstrate that God exists unless one has already allowed Himself to ignore Him? A king's existence is demonstrated…
- ...the reason for [this age's] anxiety and unrest is because in one direction, 'truth' increases in scope and quantity - via science and technology -…
- Philosophy is perfectly right in saying that life must be understood backward. But then one forgets the other clause - that it must be lived…
- Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their…
- In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant… My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known — no…
- The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss…
- There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.
- If someone who wanted to learn to dance were to say: For centuries, one generation after the other has learned the positions, and it is…
- As I stood alone and forsaken, and the power of the sea and the battle of the elements reminded me of my own nothingness, and…
- ...even the richest personality is nothing before he has chosen himself, and on the other hand even what one might call the poorest personality is…
- Language has time as its element; all other media have space as their element.
- It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.
- It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be…
- At different states in our lives, the signs of love may vary: dependence, attraction, contentment, worry, loyalty, grief, but at the heart, the source is…
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- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour