The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past.
The experience of the past lives little doubt that every economic system must sooner or later rely upon some form of the profit motive to stir individuals and groups to productivity. Substitutes like slavery, police supervision, or ideological enthusiasm prove too unproductive, too expensive, or too transient.
Nothing is often a good thing to do and always a good thing to say.
by and large the poor have the same impulses as the rich, with only less opportunity or skill to implement them
Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
Cultivate your garden Do not depend upon teachers to educate you follow your own bent, pursue your curiosity bravely, express yourself, make your own harmony In the end, education, like happiness, is individual, and must come to us from life and from ourselves. There is no way; each pilgrim must make his own path. "Happiness," said Chamfort, "is not easily won; it is hard to find it in ourselves, and impossible to find it elsewhere.
India was the motherland of our race, and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages: she was the mother of our philosophy; mother, through the Arabs, of much of our mathematics; mother, through the Buddha, of the ideals embodied in Christianity; mother, through the village community, of self-government and democracy. Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all.
To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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.
Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
Forced to choose, the poor, like the rich, love money more than political liberty; and the only political freedom capable of enduring is one that is so pruned as to keep the rich from denuding the poor by ability or subtlety and the poor from robbing the rich by violence or votes.
We teach more by what we are than by what we teach.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
The dog that buried the bone which even a canine appetite could not manage, the squirrel that gathered nuts for a later feast, the bees that filled the comb with honey, the ants that laid up stores for a rainy day - these were among the first creators of civilization. It was they....who taught our ancestors the art of providing for tomorrow out of the surplus of today, or of preparing for winter in summer's time of plenty.
Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
The individual succumbs, but he does not die if he has left something to mankind.
If you wish to be loved, be modest; if you wish to be admired, be proud; if you wish both, combine external modesty with internal pride.
How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself.
Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
In the last analysis civilization is based upon the food supply.
If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.
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 ability has its way.
Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.
No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.
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