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Famous Quotes By Aristotle

A friend to all is a friend to none.
A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
All men by nature desire knowledge.
Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
At his best, man is the noblest of all animals separated from law and justice he is the worst.
Bad men are full of repentance.
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.
Change in all things is sweet.
Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.
Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
Education is the best provision for old age.
Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.
Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.
For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.
For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Friendship is essentially a partnership.
Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.
He who hath many friends hath none.
He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.
He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.
Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
Hope is a waking dream.
Hope is the dream of a waking man.
I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.
If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.
In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.
It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Man is by nature a political animal.
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.
Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
Nature does nothing in vain.
Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.
Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.
The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
The secret to humor is surprise.
The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.
There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.
Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.
We make war that we may live in peace.
We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
Wit is educated insolence.
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

Famous Quotes By Plato

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.
A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.
All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.
And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.
Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.
Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.
Courage is a kind of salvation.
Courage is knowing what not to fear.
Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.
Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.
Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.
Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.
For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.
For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.
Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.
He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.
He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident they came by work.
I would fain grow old learning many things.
If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.
Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.
Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.
It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.
Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.
Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.
Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.
Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
Knowledge is true opinion.
Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.
Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
Life must be lived as play.
Love is a serious mental disease.
Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?
No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.
Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.
Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
One man cannot practice many arts with success.
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
Only the dead have seen the end of war.
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.
Philosophy is the highest music.
Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.
Science is nothing but perception.
States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.
The beginning is the most important part of the work.
The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.
The good is the beautiful.
The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.
The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.
The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.
Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.
Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.
There are three classes of men lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
There is no harm in repeating a good thing.
There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.
There's a victory, and defeat the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.
They certainly give very strange names to diseases.
Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.
Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.
To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.
To prefer evil to good is not in human nature and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.
Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.
Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.
We are twice armed if we fight with faith.
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
We do not learn and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.
We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.
Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.
Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.
When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.
Wise men speak because they have something to say Fools because they have to say something.

Famous Quotes By Jerry Saltz

A canon is antithetical to everything the New York art world has been about for the past 40 years, during which we went from being the center of the art world to being one of many centers.
A sad fact of life lately at the Museum of Modern Art is that when it comes to group shows of contemporary painting from the collection, the bar has been set pretty low.
Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness.
After its hothouse incubation in the seventies, appropriation breathed important new life into art. This life flowered spectacularly over the decades - even if it's now close to aesthetic kudzu.
All art comes from other art, and all immigrants come from other places.
Almost all institutions own a lot more art than they can ever show, much of it revealing for its timeliness, genius, or sheer weirdness.
Art is changing. Again. Here. Now. Opportunities to witness this are rare, so attend and observe.
Art is for anyone. It just isn't for everyone. Still, over the past decade, its audience has hugely grown, and that's irked those outside the art world, who get irritated at things like incomprehensibility or money.
Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not.
Art usually only makes the news in America when the subject is money.
Artists working for other artists is all about knowing, learning, unlearning, initiating long-term artistic dialogues, making connections, creating covens, and getting temporary shelter from the storm.
Artschwager's art always involves looking closely at surfaces, questions what an object is, wants to make you forget the name of the thing you're looking at so that it might mushroom in your mind into something that triggers unexpected infinities.
Contrary to popular opinion, things don't go stale particularly fast in the art world.
Damien Hirst is the Elvis of the English art world, its ayatollah, deliverer, and big-thinking entrepreneurial potty-mouthed prophet and front man. Hirst synthesizes punk, Pop Art, Jeff Koons, Marcel Duchamp, Francis Bacon, and Catholicism.
Early-twentieth-century abstraction is art's version of Einstein's Theory of Relativity. It's the idea that changed everything everywhere: quickly, decisively, for good.
Elizabeth Peyton, the artist known for tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant youth, is now painting tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant middle age.
First let me report that the art in the Barnes Collection has never looked better. My trips to the old Barnes were always amazing, but except on the sunniest days, you could barely see the art. The building always felt pushed beyond its capacity.
Galleries began growing in both number and size in the late seventies, when artists who worked in lofts wanted to exhibit their work in spaces similar to the ones the art was made in.
I don't know much about auctions. I sometimes go to previews and see art sardined into ugly rooms. I've gawked at the gaudy prices, and gaped at well-clad crowds of happy white people conspicuously spending hundreds of millions of dollars.
I hate art auctions.
I have a soft spot for art that, in terms of subject matter and material, is in bad taste.
I like that the art world isn't regulated.
I often find myself privately stewing about much British art, thinking that except for their tremendous gardens, that the English are not primarily visual artists, and are, in nearly unsurpassable ways, literary.
I see 30 to 40 gallery shows a week, and no matter what kind of mood I'm in, no matter how bad the art is, I almost always feel better afterward. I can learn as much from bad art as from good.
If only we could persuade galleries to observe a fallow period in which, for two months every other year, new and old works of art could be sold in back rooms and all main galleries would be devoted to revisiting shows gone by.
I'm noticing a new approach to art making in recent museum and gallery shows. It flickered into focus at the New Museum's 'Younger Than Jesus' last year and ran through the Whitney Biennial, and I'm seeing it blossom and bear fruit at 'Greater New York,'
In art, scandal is a false narrative, a smoke screen that camouflages rather than reveals. When we don't know what we're seeing, we overreact.
It is not possible to overstate the influence of Paul Cezanne on twentieth-century art. He's the modern Giotto, someone who shattered one kind of picture-making and invented a new one that the world followed.
It took me twenty years to get Steven Parrino's work. From the time I first saw his art, in the mid-eighties, I almost always dismissed it as mannered, Romantic, formulaic, conceptualist-formalist heavy-metal boy-art abstraction.
It's art that pushes against psychological and social expectations, that tries to transform decay into something generative, that is replicative in a baroque way, that isn't about progress, and wants to - as Walt Whitman put it - 'contain multitudes.'
I've always said that an art critic can put aside politics around art.
John Currin's exaggerated realism and his twisted women kept me off balance, never knowing if they were sincere or ironic or some new emotion.
Just as Pollock used the drip to meld process and product, Richter 'found' and used the smudge and the blur to ravish the eye, creating works of psychic and physical power.
Kinkade estimated that one of his paintings hung in every twenty homes in America. Yet the art world unanimously ignores or reviles him. Me included.
Many museums are drawing audiences with art that is ostensibly more entertaining than stuff that just sits and invites contemplation. Interactivity, gizmos, eating, hanging out, things that make noise - all are now the norm, often edging out much else.
Many say an art dealer running a museum is a 'conflict of interest.' But maybe the art world has lived an artificial or unintentional lie all of these years when it comes to conflicts of interest.
Megacollectors suppose they can enter art history by spending astronomical amounts.
Mission accomplished. The Museum of Modern Art's wide-open, tall-ceilinged, super-reinforced second floor was for all intents and purposes built to accommodate monumental installations and gigantic sculptures, should the need arise. It has arisen.
Money is something that can be measured art is not. It's all subjective.
My culture-deprived, aspirational mother dragged me once a month from our northern suburb - where the word art never came up - to the Art Institute of Chicago. I hated it.
My nominee for Best Picture of the year - maybe the best picture ever, because it's essentially made up of and is an ecstatic love letter to all other movies - is Christian Marclay's endlessly enticing must-see masterpiece 'The Clock.'
Not to say people shouldn't get rich from art. I adore the alchemy wherein artists who cast a complex spell make rich people give them their money. (Just writing it makes me cackle.) But too many artists have been making money without magic.
Now people look at 'The Scream' or Van Gogh's 'Irises' or a Picasso and see its new content: money. Auction houses inherently equate capital with value.
Of course art world ethics are important. But museums are no purer than any other institution or business. Academics aren't necessarily more high-minded than gallerists.
One argument goes that recessions are good for female artists because when money flies out the window, women are allowed in the house. The other claims that when money ebbs, so do prospects for women.
Our culture now wonderfully, alchemically transforms images and history into artistic material. The possibilities seem endless and wide open.
Outside museums, in noisy public squares, people look at people. Inside museums, we leave that realm and enter what might be called the group-mind, getting quiet to look at art.
Poor Georgia O'Keeffe. Death didn't soften the opinions of the art world toward her paintings.
Recessions are hard on people, but they are not hard on art.
Robert Rauschenberg was not a giant of American art he was the giant. No American created so many aesthetic openings for so many artists.
Rumors sound of galleries asking artists for upsized art and more of it. I've heard of photographers asked to print larger to increase the wall power and salability of their work. Everything winds up set to maximum in order to feed the beast.
Summer is a great time to visit art museums, which offer the refreshing rinse of swimming pools - only instead of cool water, you immerse yourself in art.
The alchemy of good curating amounts to this: Sometimes, placing one work of art near another makes one plus one equal three. Two artworks arranged alchemically leave each intact, transform both, and create a third thing.
The art gods cooked up something special for James Ensor.
The art world is an all-volunteer force. No one has to be here if he or she doesn't want to be, and we should be associating with anyone we want to.
The art world is molting - some would say melting. Galleries are closing museums are scaling back.
The forties, seventies, and the nineties, when money was scarce, were great periods, when the art world retracted but it was also reborn.
The greatest work of art about New York? The question seems nebulous. The city's magic and majesty are distilled in the photographs of Alfred Stieglitz and Paul Strand.
The last time money left the art world, intrepid types maxed out their credit cards and opened galleries, and a few of them have become the best in the world.
The Met is not only the finest encyclopedic museum of art in the United States it is arguably the finest anywhere.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is unsurpassed at presenting more than 50 centuries of work. I go there constantly, seeing things over and over, better than I've ever seen them before.
The New York art world readily proves people wrong. Just when folks say that things stink and flibbertigibbet critics wish the worst on us all because we're not pure enough, good omens appear.
The price of a work of art has nothing to do with what the work of art is, can do, or is worth on an existential, alchemical level.
The secret of food lies in memory - of thinking and then knowing what the taste of cinnamon or steak is.
The style of ancient Egyptian art is transcendently clear, something 8-year-olds can recognize in an instant. Its consistency and codification is one of the most epic visual journeys in all art, one that lasts 30 dynasties spread over 3,000 years.
There's something pleasing about large, well-lit spaces. I love that dealers are willing to take massive chances in order to give this much room to their artists. Most of all, I love that more galleries showing more art gives more artists a shot.
Those who love him love that he sells the most art they take it as a point of faith that this proves Kinkade is the best. But his fans don't only rely on this supply-and-demand justification. They go back to values.
To engage with art, we have to be willing to be wrong, venture outside our psychic comfort zones, suspend disbelief, and remember that art explores and alters consciousness simultaneously.
To me, nothing in the art world is neutral. The idea of 'disinterest' strikes me as boring, dishonest, dubious, and uninteresting.
Too many younger artists, critics, and curators are fetishizing the sixties, transforming the period into a deformed cult, a fantasy religion, a hip brand, and a crippling disease.
Venice is the perfect place for a phase of art to die. No other city on earth embraces entropy quite like this magical floating mall.
We're all entitled to opinions about how art institutions should behave, and entitled to voicing those opinions through whatever means available to us. We're also allowed to change or modify our opinions.
When art wins, everyone wins.
Wolfgang Tillman's stunning large-scale pictures, being shown for the first time, were so offhand I failed to see them as art.
Works of art often last forever, or nearly so. But exhibitions themselves, especially gallery exhibitions, are like flowers they bloom and then they die, then exist only as memories, or pressed in magazines and books.
Yes, 85 percent of the art you see isn't any good. But everyone has a different opinion about which 85 percent is bad. That in turn creates fantastically unstable interplay and argument.

Famous Quotes By Thomas Jefferson

Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.
An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.
As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.
Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other.
Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.
Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.
For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.
Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?
Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.
He who knows best knows how little he knows.
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.
I have no ambition to govern men it is a painful and thankless office.
I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.
I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.
I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just that his justice cannot sleep forever.
I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.
If God is just, I tremble for my country.
If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.
Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.
It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.
It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.
It is neither wealth nor splendor but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.
Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.
Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.
My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.
Never spend your money before you have earned it.
No government ought to be without censors and where the press is free no one ever will.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.
One man with courage is a majority.
One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.
Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.
Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none.
Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.
Power is not alluring to pure minds.
Question with boldness even the existence of a God because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.
So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.
Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.
That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.
The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.
The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.
The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.
The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.
The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.
The second office in the government is honorable and easy the first is but a splendid misery.
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.
There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.
Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very fast.
War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.
When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.
When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty.
Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.
Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.
Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.

Famous Quotes By Albert Einstein

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin what else does a man need to be happy?
All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.
An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.
Force always attracts men of low morality.
God always takes the simplest way.
God does not play dice.
God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead his eyes are closed.
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!
I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.
I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.
I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.
Information is not knowledge.
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.
It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.
It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.
Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
Love is a better teacher than duty.
Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.
Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.
Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right a single experiment can prove me wrong.
Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.
One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
Peace cannot be kept by force it can only be achieved by understanding.
People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.
Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.
Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.
Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
The environment is everything that isn't me.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.
The man of science is a poor philosopher.
The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.
The only source of knowledge is experience.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.
Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
True religion is real living living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
We should take care not to make the intellect our god it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
When the solution is simple, God is answering.
When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
You can't blame gravity for falling in love.
You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

Famous Quotes By George Bernard Shaw

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.
A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.
Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.
An index is a great leveller.
Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
Beauty is all very well at first sight but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
Beware of false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance.
Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.
Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.
Clever and attractive women do not want to vote they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
Hell is full of musical amateurs.
He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.
I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.
I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.
I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.
I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.
I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.
If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.
It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.
It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.
Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
Lack of money is the root of all evil.
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire the other is to get it.
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.
Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.
Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.
My reputation grows with every failure.
Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.
No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.
Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.
Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.
One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
Power does not corrupt men fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.
She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.
The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.
The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.
The love of economy is the root of all virtue.
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.
The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.
The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.
There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.
There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.
Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die do not outlive yourself.
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.
You use a glass mirror to see your face you use works of art to see your soul.
You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

Famous Quotes By Mahatma Gandhi

About Mahatma Gandhi -

Lived:	2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948
Known To Be:	Preeminent leader of Indian independence movement, Father of nation (India), English barrister
Wiki Link:	Mahatma Gandhi
Notable Ideas:	Leadership of Indian independence movement, philosophy of Satyagraha, Ahimsa or nonviolence, pacifism

Famous Quotes By Mahatma Gandhi

Quotes By Mahatma Gandhi -

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love it is the prerogative of the brave.
A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.
A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.
A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.
All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.
Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.
An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.
As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.
Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.
But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.
Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.
Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.
Each one prays to God according to his own light.
Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.
Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.
Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.
Fear has its use but cowardice has none.
Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.
Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.
God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.
I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.
I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.
I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.
I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.
I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary the evil it does is permanent.
I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles but today it means getting along with people.
I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.
If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.
If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.
In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.
It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.
It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.
It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.
Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.
Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.
Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.
Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.
Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.
Morality is contraband in war.
Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.
My life is my message.
My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.
Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.
Non-violence is the article of faith.
Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.
Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.
One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
Peace is its own reward.
Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.
Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.
Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
The good man is the friend of all living things.
The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.
The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.
There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
Those who know how to think need no teachers.
Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.
To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.
Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.
Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.
Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.
What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.
What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.
When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.
Where love is, there God is also.
Where there is love there is life.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

Famous Quotes By Friedrich Nietzsche

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Lived:	15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900
Known To Be:	German philologist, philosopher, cultural critic, poet and composer
Wiki Link:	Friedrich Nietzsche
Notable Ideas:	Apollonian and Dionysian, Übermensch · Ressentiment, "Will to power" · "God is dead", Eternal recurrence · Amor fati, Herd instinct · Tschandala, "Last Man" · Perspectivism, Master–slave morality, Transvaluation of values, Nietzschean affirmation

Famous Quotes By Friedrich Nietzsche

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A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.
A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.
A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.
A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.
Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.
All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.
All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.
All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.
All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?
An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.
And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.
Art is the proper task of life.
Art raises its head where creeds relax.
Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.
Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.
Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?
'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs?
Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.
Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
Fear is the mother of morality.
For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.
Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.
Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.
God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.
Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance one cannot fly into flying.
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.
I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'
I love those who do not know how to live for today.
I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.
If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
In music the passions enjoy themselves.
In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.
In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.
In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.
Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?
Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?
It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.
It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.
Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.
Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.
Love is blind friendship closes its eyes.
Love is not consolation. It is light.
Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.
Mystical explanations are thought to be deep the truth is that they are not even shallow.
Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.
Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.
Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.
Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.
Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.
On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.
Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.
One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.
Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.
Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.
Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.
Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.
Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.
Success has always been a great liar.
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.
The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.
The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.
The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.
The doer alone learneth.
The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
The future influences the present just as much as the past.
The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'
The lie is a condition of life.
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!
There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life their Christianity, for instance.
There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.
There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are - more humane.
There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.
There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.
This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.
To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.
Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god but who knows my god?
Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.
Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.
War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.
We have art in order not to die of the truth.
We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.
We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?
What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.
Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.
When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.
When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.
When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.
When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.
When one has not had a good father, one must create one.
Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.
Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.
Without music, life would be a mistake.
Woman was God's second mistake.
Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.
Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.
You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.

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