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History reports that the men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things, and the men who can manage money manage all.
[I]ndeed, one hears, in early Christian theology, as many echoes of Persian dualism as of Hebrew Puritanism or Greek philosophy.
It came to me that reform should begin at home, and since that day I have not had time to remake the world.
Let us trust to ourselves, see all with our own eyes; Let these be our oracles, our tripods and our gods.
The Roman Republic would soon be destroyed by the unfettered energy of its great men. The redeeming feature of this aristocracy and
As knowledge grew, fear decreased; men thought less of worshiping the unknown, and more of overcoming it.
Man is an emotional animal, occasionally rational; and through his feelings he can be deceived to his heart's content.
By and large the poor have the same impulses as the rich, with only less opportunity or skill to implement them
Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
Philosophy begins when one learns to doubt - particularly to doubt one's cherished beliefs, one's dogmas and one's axioms.
He who steals from a citizen," said Cato, "ends his days in fetters and chains; but he who steals from the community ends them in purple and gold."17
Nothing is lost in history: sooner or later every creative idea finds opportunity and development, and adds its color to the flame of life.
If we rated greatness by the influence of the great, we will say Muhammad is the greatest of the great in history
There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.
The Egyptians enjoyed a great variety of diseases, though they had to die of them without knowing their Greek names.
The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
You can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.
Art lies in conceiving and designing, not in the actual execution' - this was left for lesser minds.
If you wish to be loved, be modest; if you wish to be admired, be proud; if you wish both, combine external modesty with internal pride.
Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day
The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
Intolerance is the natural concomitant of strong faith; tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty; certainty is murderous. Plato
In Constantinople, more Christians were slaughtered by Christians in the years 342-343 than by all the persecutions by pagans in the history of Rome.
This is the tragedy of almost every civilization - that its soul is in its faith, and seldom survives philosophy.
Facts replaced understanding; and knowledge, split into a thousand isolated fragments, no longer generated wisdom.
I have tried to be impartial, though I know that a man's past always colors his views, and that nothing else is so irritating as impartiality.
I came to think of myself, not as a dance and chaos of molecules, but as a brief and minute portion of that majestic process
Economic development specializes functions, differentiates abilities, and makes men unequally valuable to their group.
The Institutional Church (ecclesia) has killed only two kinds of people: Those who do not believe in the teachings of Jesus Christ, and those who do.