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Quotations 337–360 of 692.

  1. Custom, then, is the great guide of human life.
  2. Conscience! Conscience! divine instinct, immortal and heavenly voice.
  3. If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
  4. The true is thus the Bacchanalian revel in which no member is not drunk.
  5. What a person is contributes more to his happiness than what he has.
  6. It is quite true what philosophy says, that life must be understood backwards. But then one forgets the other principle: that it must be lived forwards.
  7. Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
  8. It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied.
  9. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.
  10. The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
  11. The quest for certainty…is a quest for a peace which is assured.
  12. Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
  13. The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
  14. The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.
  15. Seek simplicity and distrust it.
  16. In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.
  17. Forgiveness is the only reaction which does not merely re-act but acts anew and unexpectedly.
  18. the banality of evil
  19. We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.
  20. Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
  21. Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
  22. Man becomes an I through a You.
  23. Absolute attention is prayer.
  24. Whoever strives with all his might, him can we save.