I was only 44, which is childhood philosophy.
The individual succumbs but he does not die if he has left something to mankind.
A man is as old as his arteries and as young as his ideas.
Death like style is the removal of rubbish.
Make wisdom human to the adolescent mind.
Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
When liberty destroys order the hunger for order will destroy liberty.
Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
In progressive societies the concentration[of wealth] may reach a point where the strength of number in the many poor rivals the strength of ability in the few rich; then the unstable equilibrium gene...
We are what we repeatedly do. Greatness then, is not an act, but a habit
History is an excellent teacher with few pupils.
Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
So the conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it -- perhaps as much more as the roots are more vital than grafts. It is good that new ideas should be heard, for the...
The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself.
The state is the soul of man enlarged under the microscope of history.