Philosopher Quotes

So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.
The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.
The words of the world want to make sentences.
There is no original truth, only original error.
To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.
If one is satisfied with things, one doesn't complain about the downsides that exist, either.
Society is becoming less and less transparent. People no longer know where decisions that substantially affect their lives are taken, nor by whom, nor how.
Transnational, gigantic industrial companies no longer operate within political systems, but rather above them.
Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help.
An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.
Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it.
Education is the art of making man ethical.
Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.
Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.
I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation.
It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value.
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