“There is only one good. And that is to act according to the dictates of one's conscience.”
Quotes for When You Need Peace · Page 98
Serene words to slow down your world and bring you back to stillness.
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“What has value in their eyes is never what is done for them; it's what they do for themselves.”
“It is for man to establish the reign of liberty in the midst of the world of the given.”
“It is doubtless impossible to approach any human problems with a mind free from bias.”
“The present enshrines the past—and in the past all history has been made by men.”
“I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.”
“What should a society be, so that in his last years a man might still be a man?”
“It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life.”
“Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this.”
“It is precisely in knowing its limits that philosophy consists.”
“All human knowledge begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to concepts, and ends with ideas.”
“I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.”
“In the kingdom of ends everything has either a price or a dignity.”
“Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.”
“By a lie a man throws away and, as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.”
“However, he who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards that he gets stepped on.”