Zitat des Tages über Konfuzius / Confucius:
I'm simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously?
I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.
Liberalism, on the other hand, regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situations, in which there is no guarantee that the new will always be the good or the true, in which progress is a precarious achievement rather than inevitability.
But when, in the first setting out, he takes it for granted without proof, that distinctions found in the structure of all languages, have no foundation in nature; this surely is too fastidious a way of treating the common sense of mankind.
To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.
It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.
A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.
There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.
I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
Some vegetarians and vegans may object to in vitro meat, because they don't see the need for meat at all. That's fine for them, and of course they are free to remain vegetarians and vegans and choose not to eat in vitro meat.
It is better to destroy one's own errors than those of others.
Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.
You need not wonder at my knowing all human languages; for, to tell you the truth, I also understand all the secrets of human silence.
As a political metaphor, a revolution could, in that sense, mean only a return to better times, or to the true constitution: a ridding of excess or usurpers.
It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
If we call ourselves children of God, then others are also children of God.
My parents were in the book business, my brothers still run the Dutton bookstores in Los Angeles, and I've been interested in editing books and journals all of my life.
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
To be sure, the vast majority of people who are untrained can accept the results of science only on authority.
The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.
As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.
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.
Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin.
Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.
Another occupation might have been better.
Will and intellect are one and the same thing.
Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.
Superior and inferior wage one hundred battles a day.
I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.
Your library is your paradise.
I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals.
