But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
Knowledge is real knowledge only when it is acquired by the efforts of your intellect, not by memory
In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.
One must be cunning and wicked in this world.
Anything is better than lies and deceit!
Those whom God wishes to destroy he drives mad.
Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
There are as many loves as there are hearts.
Some mathematician said that pleasure lies not in discovering the truth but in searching for it.
The magnanimity and sensibility of a lady who faints when she sees a calf being killed: she is so kindhearted that she can't look at blood, but enjoys eating the calf served up with sauce.
vegetarianism is the taproot of humanitarianism.
Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one that isn't my own.
Good fiction doesn't come out of the basic conflict of good versus bad. Instead, it comes out of a conflict between good and good.
And that which yesterday was the novel opinion of one man, to-day becomes the general opinion of the majority.
The essence of all slavery consists in taking the product of another's labor by force. It is immaterial whether this force be founded upon ownership of the slave or ownership of the money that he must get to live.
The artist's mission must not be to produce an irrefutable solution to a problem, but to compel us to love life in all its countless and inexhaustible manifestations.
Everything intelligent is so boring.
Everything I know, I know because of love.
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness.
Happy people have no history.
For man to be able to live he must either not see the infinite, or have such an explanation of the meaning of life as will connect the finite with the infinite.
A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.
School is established, not in order that it should be convenient for the children to study, but that teachers should be able to teach in comfort. The children's conversations, motion, merriment are not convenient for the teacher, and so in the schools, which are built on the plan of prisons, are prohibited.
We love people not so much for the good they've done us, as for the good we've done them.
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