Wisdom Quotes - Page 154

There are worse things than being mad.

Upon the solution of this problem, or upon sufficient proof of the impossibility of synthetical knowledge a priori, depends the existence or downfall of metaphysics.

We cannot make owners by merely giving men something to own. And, I repeat, whether there be sufficient desire for property left upon which we can work, only experience can decide.

In the form of security and sufficiency for the men who labor to the profit of others, and in the form of registering and controlling them in the form of an organized public supervision of their labor, slavery is already afoot. When slavery shall succeed it will succeed through the acquiescence of those who will be enslaved, for they will prefer sufficiency and security with enslavement, to freedom, responsibility, insecurity and the threat of insufficiency.

The machine does not control the mind of man, though it affects the mind of man; it is the mind of man that can and should control the machine.

Those who cavalierly reject the Theory of Evolution, as not adequately supported by facts, seem quite to forget that their own theory it supported by no facts at all.

The people must fight for their laws as for their walls.

The word capital, as philologists trace it, comes down to us from a time when wealth was estimated in cattle, and a man's income depended upon the number of head he could keep for their increase.

If you would have the slave show the virtues of the freeman, you must first make him free.

I should consider it a greater success to interest one wise and earnest soul, than a million unwise and frivolous.

English sense has toiled, but Hindoo wisdom never perspired.

Wisdom, character, and consciousness conquer everything.

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

Each time we see and are touched by the expression of some eternal principle, we catch a sweet glimpse of some aspect of our True Self.

It's a paradox of the true spiritual path, but the more conscious we become of what limits us, the more limitless becomes our life.

On the other side of resistance is the flow of real life.

The wage earner relies upon the ventures of confident and contented capital. This failing him, his condition is without alleviation, for he can neither prey on the misfortune of others nor hoard his labor.

It is a good thing to proceed in order and to establish propositions. This is the way to gain ground and to progress with certainty.

No, Don Camillo; you didn't exactly steal it. Peppone had two cigars in his pocket. Peppone is a Communist. He believes in sharing things. By skillfully relieving him of one cigar, you only took your fair share.

A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough to wish to be a philosopher.

Old places and old persons in their turn, when spirit dwells in them, have an intrinsic vitality of which youth is incapable, precisely, the balance and wisdom that come from long perspectives and broad foundations

Three things can not hide for long: the Moon, the Sun and the Truth.

The world is continuous flux and is impermanent.

The slave states of Western world are an outgrowth of monopolistic capitalism - an economic system which is opposed to the wide distribution of private property in many hands. Instead, monopolistic capitalism concentrates productive wealth among a few men, allowing the rest to become a vast proletariat.

The workmen in a factory may have a shadowy, unknown absentee "employer" - the thousands of individual owners of stock - whom "management" represents and tries to please by extra dividends. The workman's livelihood is at the disposition of strangers who make a single demand of their representatives: higher profits.