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sartre | He who asks a question is a fool for a minute; he who does not remains a fool forever. | ethics;education |
sartre | I can always choose, but I ought to know that if I do not choose, I | knowledge;ethics;education |
sartre | am still choosing. | ethics |
sartre | I hate victims who respect their executioners. | null |
sartre | Everything has been figured out, except how to live. | knowledge |
sartre | your judgement judges you and defines you | null |
sartre | slipped out of the world, somewhere else like the soul of a dead man. Perhaps he was only a dream...God is dead. | null |
sartre | Nothingness haunts Being. | null |
sartre | To choose not to choose is still to act. | ethics |
sartre | Death is a continuation of my life without me. | history |
sartre | In a word, man must create his own essence: it is in throwing himself into the world, suffering there, struggling there, that he gradually defines himself. | ethics |
sartre | Imagination is not an empirical or superadded power of consciousness, it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes its freedom. | null |
sartre | I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul. | ethics |
sartre | To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe. | knowledge;ethics |
sartre | The more one is absorbed in fighting evil, the less one is tempted to place the good in question. | ethics |
sartre | My thought is me: that's why I can't stop. I exist because I think | ethics;knowledge;history |
sartre | Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience. | null |
sartre | She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. | null |
sartre | and without resignation either. He stares at death with passionate attention and this fascination liberates him. He experiences the divine irresponsibility of the condemned man. | ethics;knowledge |
sartre | It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous. | null |
sartre | Every human endeavor, however singular it seems, involves the whole human race. | null |
sartre | Thats what existence means: draining ones own self dry without the sense of thirst. | null |
sartre | If all I asked was not a great deal, that's my problem! | ethics;education |
sartre | A madman's ravings are absurd in relation to the situation in which he finds himself, but not in relation to his madness. | null |
sartre | The viable jewels of life remain untouched when man forgets his vocation of searching for the truth of his existence. | knowledge;ethics |
sartre | Photographs are not ideas. They give us ideas. | null |
sartre | Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes. | politics |
sartre | Be quiet! Anyone can spit in my face, and call me a criminal and a prostitute. But no one has the right to judge my remorse. | ethics;knowledge;politics |
sartre | I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books. | knowledge |
sartre | I wanted pure love: foolishness; to love one another is to hate a common enemy: I will thus espouse your hatred. I wanted Good: nonsense; on this earth and in these times, Good and Bad are inseparable: I accept to be evil in order to become good. | love;politics |
sartre | As for the square at Meknes, where I used to go every day, it's even simpler: I do not see it at all anymore. All that remains is the vague feeling that it was charming, and these five words that are indivisibly bound together: a charming square at Meknes. ... I don't see anything any more: I can search the past in vain, I can only find these scraps of images and I am not sure what they represent, whether they are memories or just fiction. | history |
sartre | I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything. | null |
sartre | To keep hope alive one must, in spite of all mistakes, horrors, and crimes, recognize the obvious superiority of the socialist camp. | politics;knowledge |
sartre | I have such a desire to sleep and am so much behind my sleep. A good night, one good night and all this nonsense will be swept away. | null |
sartre | Acting is happy agony. | null |
sartre | Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is. | history;knowledge;ethics |
sartre | Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives. | ethics;knowledge |
sartre | Take [Stphane] Mallarme. I hold him to be the greatest of French poets, and I have taken some time to understand him ! | knowledge |
sartre | I am neither virgin nor priest enough to play with the inner life. | ethics |
sartre | To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head | null |
sartre | I needed to justify my existence, and I had made an absolute of literature. It took me thirty years to get rid of this state of mind. | null |
sartre | Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear. | knowledge;ethics |
sartre | as not-bound to life. | null |
sartre | One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself. | ethics |
sartre | Absurd, irreducible; nothing not even a profound and secret delirium of nature could explain it. Obviously I did not know everything, I had not seen the seeds sprout, or the tree grow. But faced with this great wrinkled paw, neither ignorance nor knowledge was important: the world of explanations and reasons is not the world of existence. A circle is not absurd, it is clearly explained by the rotation of a straight segment around one of its extremities. But neither does a circle exist. This root, on the other hand, existed in such a way that I could not explain it. | null |
sartre | I am not recommending "popular" literature which aims at the lowest. | null |
sartre | Men equally honest, equally devoted to their fatherland, are momentarily separated by different conceptions of their duty. | ethics |
sartre | Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away. | ethics |
sartre | Render a kiss or blow | love |
sartre | Offer all the hatred in your heart | null |
plato | No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth. | ethics;knowledge |
plato | A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something. | ethics |
plato | Be kind. Every person you meet | ethics |
plato | Better to complete a small task well, than to do much imperfectly. | ethics;knowledge |
plato | The right question is usually more important than the right answer. | ethics |
plato | Ignorance is the root cause of all difficulties. | null |
plato | Someday, in the distant future, our grand-children' s grand-children will develop a new equivalent of our classrooms. They will spend many hours in front of boxes with fires glowing within. May they have the wisdom to know the difference between light and knowledge. | null |
plato | I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing. | knowledge;ethics;education |
plato | Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. | ethics;knowledge |
plato | The one who learns and learns and doesn't practice is like the one who plows and plows and never plants. | ethics |
plato | The measure of a man is what he does with power. | politics |
plato | Wisest is he who knows what he does not know. | knowledge;ethics;education |
plato | Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead. Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle. | ethics |
plato | Those who tell the stories rule society. | history |
plato | The worst of all deceptions is self-deception. | null |
plato | You should not honor men more than truth. | ethics |
plato | One cannot make a slave of a free person, for a free person is free even in a prison. | ethics;knowledge |
plato | False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. | ethics |
plato | There is nothing so delightful as the hearing, or the speaking of truth. For this reason, there is no conversation so agreeable as that of the man of integrity, who hears without any intention to betray, and speaks without any intention to deceive. | ethics;knowledge |
plato | Poverty doesn't come because of the decrease of wealth but because of the increase of desires. | null |
plato | Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow... even if that someone is yourself! | ethics;knowledge |
plato | Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. | love |
plato | A true artist is someone who gives birth to a new reality. | null |
plato | The souls of people, on their way to Earth-life, pass through a room full of lights; each takes a taper - often only a spark - to guide it in the dim country of this world. But some souls, by rare fortune, are detained longer - have time to grasp a handful of tapers, which they weave into a torch. These are the torch-bearers of humanity - its poets, seers and saints, who lead and lift the race out of darkness, toward the light. They are the law-givers and saviors, the light-bringers, way-showers and truth-tellers, and without them, humanity would lose its way in the dark. | null |
plato | We become what we contemplate. | knowledge;ethics |
plato | He who does not desire power is fit to hold it. | politics;ethics |
plato | The three wishes of every man: to be healthy, to be rich by honest means, and to be beautiful. | null |
plato | Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds. | ethics |
plato | How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state? | null |
plato | The philosopher is in love with truth, that is, not with the changing world of sensation, which is the object of opinion, but with the unchanging reality which is the object of knowledge. | knowledge |
plato | He who is only an athlete is too crude, too vulgar, too much a savage. He who is a scholar only is too soft, to effeminate. The ideal citizen is the scholar athlete, the man of thought and the man of action. | ethics |
plato | I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with | education;knowledge |
plato | He who love touches walks not in darkness. | love;ethics;knowledge |
plato | Pleasure is the bait of sin | null |
plato | A good decision is based on knowledge, and not on numbers. | knowledge;education |
plato | When man is not properly trained, he is the most savage animal on the face of the globe. | ethics |
plato | Happiness springs from doing good and helping others. | ethics |
plato | One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. | politics |
plato | The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless. | religion;ethics;knowledge |
plato | Harmony sinks deep into the recesses of the soul and takes its strongest hold there, bringing grace also to the body & mind as well. Music is a moral law. It gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, and life to everything. It is the essence of order. | null |
plato | Do not expect justice where might is right. | null |
plato | When you feel grateful, you become great, and eventually attract great things. | ethics;knowledge |
plato | If we are to have any hope for the future, those who have lanterns must pass them on to others. | ethics |
plato | We see many instances of cities going down like sinking ships to their destruction. There have been such wrecks in the past and there surely will be others in the future, caused by the wickedness of captains and crews alike. For these are guilty men, whose sin is supreme ignorance of what matters most. | null |
plato | Mankind will never see an end of trouble until lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power become lovers of wisdom | politics;knowledge |
plato | Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. | politics;knowledge |
plato | A dog has the soul of a philosopher. | ethics |
plato | Thinking is the soul talking to itself. | null |
plato | midwife to the awakening of the Soul in another person. | love;knowledge |
plato | All wars are fought for the sake of getting money. | null |