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Quotations 241–264 of 692.

  1. All our dignity consists, then, in thought.
  2. The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.
  3. All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
  4. During the time men live without a common Power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called War.
  5. Felicity is a continual progress of the desire, from one object to another.
  6. the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short
  7. The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it…Reason…teaches all mankind…that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.
  8. As far as this consciousness can be extended backwards to any past action or thought, so far reaches the identity of that person.
  9. A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.
  10. For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception or other.
  11. Reason is wholly inactive, and can never be the source of so active a principle as conscience, or a sense of morals.
  12. Everything is good as it leaves the hands of the Author of things; everything degenerates in the hands of man.
  13. To find a form of association…by which each, uniting with all, nevertheless obeys only himself, and remains as free as before.
  14. The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, thought of saying 'This is mine'…was the true founder of civil society.
  15. Enlightenment is the human being's emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.
  16. The sublime is what is absolutely great.
  17. The true is the whole.
  18. Self-consciousness attains its satisfaction only in another self-consciousness.
  19. What is rational is actual; and what is actual is rational.
  20. The self is a relation that relates itself to itself.
  21. To be great is to be misunderstood.
  22. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
  23. Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.
  24. If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.