We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
[W]orship, if not the child, is at leastthe brother, of fear.
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.
Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day.
Men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things.
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Nothing is often a good thing to do and always a good thing to say.
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.
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...
The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.