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Nothing is often a good thing to do and always a good thing to say.
History is always repeating itself, but each time the price goes up.
To rulers religion, like almost everything else, is a tool of power.
To seek, beneath the universal strife, the hidden harmony of things.
Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
Those who know nothing about history are doomed forever to repeat it.
To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
The soul of a civilization is its religion, and it dies with its faith.
Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.
Tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty; certainty is murderous.
Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
There is no real philosophy until the mind turns around and examines itself.
When liberty exceeds intelligence, it begets chaos, which begets dictatorship.
The great snare of thought is uncritical acceptance of irrational assumptions.
How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself.
There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
In the end, nothing is lost. Every event, for good or evil, has effects forever.
The individual succumbs, but he does not die if he has left something to mankind.
History offers some consolation by reminding us that sin has flourished in every age.
For you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrificed in the turbulence of change.
We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
A cat has a reputation to protect. If it had a halo, it would be worn cocked to one side.
In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line.
In its youth a people produce mythology and poetry; in its decadence, philosophy and logic.
Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
Liberty is a luxury of security; the free individual is a product and a mark of civilization.
History repeats itself in the large because human nature changes with geological leisureliness.
Wherever men do things, other men will arise who will explain to them how things should be done.
Knowledge that does not generate achievement is a pale and bloodless thing, unworthy of mankind.
Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard
The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
War is one of the constants of history, and it has not diminished with civilization or democracy.
Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
From barbarism to civilization requires a century; from civilization to barbarism needs but a day.
Paul created a theology of which none but the vaguest warrants can be found in the words of Christ.
There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present.
Art lies in conceiving and designing, not in the actual execution' - this was left for lesser minds.
So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.
The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
Peace is an unstable equilibrium, which can be preserved only by acknowledged supremacy or equal power.
Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.
If we have never been amazed by the very fact that we exist, we are squandering the greatest fact of all.
As knowledge grew, fear decreased; men thought less of worshiping the unknown, and more of overcoming it.
The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.