The maturity of man that means, to have reacquired the seriousness that one had as a child at play.

The greatest mystery the universe offers is not life but Size.

The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

One must reach out and try to grasp this astonishing finesse, that the value of lif cannot be estimated.

Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too.

It is in your own power to maintain the beauty of your soul, or to be a decent human being.

Is the world really beautified by the fact that man thinks it beautiful? He has humanized it, that is all.

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

History should be written as philosophy.

Happiness seems to depend on leisure, because we work to have leisure, and wage war to live in peace.

Every man must have a philosophy of life, for everyone must have a standard by which to measure his conduct. And philosophy is nothing but a standard by which to measure.

Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to a man himself.

Be your own master, and look at things as a man, as a human being, as a citizen, as a mortal creature.

An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. A modern school where football is taught.

Advocates of capitalism like to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.

A soul that knows it is loved but does not itself love betrays its sediment: what is at bottom comes up.