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In this loveless everyday life eroticism is a substitute for love.
The indulgence of revenge tends to make men more savage and cruel.
Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.
Truth generally lies in the coordination of antagonistic opinions.
The social risks that worry us are not a random bundle of frights.
You are My sight, so have faith. You are My Face, so veil yourself
Melancholy characterizes those with a superb sense of the sublime.
Animals... are there merely as a means to an end. That end is man.
There is no falsification before the emergence of a better theory.
There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.
God is not an encyclopedia whose task is to satisfy our curiosity.
Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.
Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.
If Socrates died like a philosopher, Jesus Christ died like a God.
Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls.
I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.
Whoever blushes confesses guilt, true innocence never feels shame.
Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.
It is meaningless that we are born, it is meaningless that we die.
To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June
L'homme est condamne a' e" tre libre. Man is condemned to be free.
I am neither virgin nor priest enough to play with the inner life.
I should wish [Alain Robbe-Grillet] to realize that Guinea exists.
Confidence is directness and courage in meeting the facts of life.
Purposeful action is thus the goal of all that is truly educative.
Democracy means the belief that humanistic culture should prevail.
Education as growth or maturity should be an ever-present process.
Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?
There are two sides, two players. One is light, the other is dark.
Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.
Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made.
Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts.
The world is a progressively realized community of interpretation.
The uncertainty of the danger belongs to the essence of terrorism.
The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.
To destroy Christianity, we must first destroy the British Empire.
Money plays the largest part in determining the course of history.
Force is the midwife of every old society pregnant with a new one.
No production without a need. But consumption reproduces the need.
Junk food, empty calories and carbs are the Big Data of the masses
A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
If you want to accord with the Tao, just do your job, then let go.
Other people are occupied, I alone am unwilling, like the outcast.
You cannot receive what you don't give. Outflow determines inflow.
In order to eliminate the negative influences, simply ignore them.
The real key to health and happiness and success is self knowledge
That which offers no resistance can enter where there is no space.
The master understands that the universe is forever out of control
A good traveler leaves no tracks. Good speech lacks fault-finding.
That which offers no resistance, overcomes the hardest substances.