Philosopher Quotes

When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

The state is not abolished, it withers away.

The proletariat uses the State not in the interests of freedom but in order to hold down its adversaries, and as soon as it becomes possible to speak of freedom the State as such ceases to exist.

Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.

Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.

Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development.

From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.

Freedom is the recognition of necessity.

The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.

Happy is he who has gained the wealth of divine thoughts, wretched is he whose beliefs about the gods are dark.

The nature of God is a circle of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.

The intellectual who wants to do her work properly must today go back to the starting point: the woman whom she knows, and first of all to herself. It is at that level, and at no other, that she ought to begin to think about the world situation.

Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity.

Mass media provides the essential link between the individual and the demands of the technological society.

It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of propaganda techniques on a societal scale.

For the word is dialectical in itself and at the same time is integrated into the whole of existence. By this I mean that the word is intended to be lived.

Thinking has become a superfluous exercise... purely internal, without compelling force, more or less a game.

The orchestration of press, radio and television to create a continuous, lasting and total environment renders the influence of propaganda virtually unnoticed precisely because it creates a constant environment.

The Holy Spirit alone can do this, the Holy Spirit alone can establish this link with one's neighbor.

The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical belief.

Prayer holds together the shattered fragments of the creation. It makes history possible.

In sum, thought and reflection have been rendered thoroughly pointless by the circumstances in which modern men and women live and act.

All human language draws its nature and value from the fact that it both comes from the Word of God and is chosen by God to manifest himself. But this relationship is secret and incomprehensible, beyond the bounds of reason and analysis.

The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great.

Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door.

A just person is one who is conformed and transformed into justice.