Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day.
Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
History is an excellent teacher with few pupils.
Men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things.
And last are the few whose delight is in meditation and understanding; who yearn not for goods, nor for victory, but for knowledge; who leave both market and battlefield to lose themselves in the quie...
[W]orship, if not the child, is at leastthe brother, of fear.
Even when repressed, inequality grows; only the man who is below the average in economic ability desires equality; those who are conscious of superior ability desire freedom, and in the end superior a...
We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
Nothing is often a good thing to do and always a good thing to say.
يقول شوبنهاور: لاشيء يبعث فينا الانسجام أكثر من المعرفة الدقيقة، وكلما ازددنا معرفة لعواطفنا كلما قلّت سيطرتها علينا. ولاشيء يحمينا أكثر من السيطرة على نفوسنا، فإذا أردت أن تخضع كل شيء لنفسك أخضع نفسك...
Forget mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day.
Nature smiles at the union of freedom and equality in our utopias. For freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and when one prevails the other dies.
It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.
History reports that the men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things, and the men who can manage money manage all.
A nation is born stoic, and dies epicurean. At its cradle (to repeat a thoughtful adage) religion stands, and philosophy accompanies it to the grave. In the beginning of all cultures a strong religiou...
To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.