QUOTES FROM THE PAST

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. - S. G. Tallentyre

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. - John Dewey

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense. - Cicero

Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves? - Diogenes of Sinope

The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby designated. - Georg Hegel

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it. - John Locke

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. - John Locke

Every country has the government it deserves. - Joseph de Maistre

The anarchist and the Christian have a common origin. - Friedrich Nietzsche

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous. - Blaise Pascal

The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration. - José Ortega y Gasset

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

A man's feet must be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world. - George Santayana

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. - George Santayana

Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself. - Friedrich Schlegel

Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost. - Arthur Schopenhauer

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death. - Arthur Schopenhauer

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods. - Seneca

A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true. - Socrates

The most tyrannical governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts. - Benedict Spinoza

An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis. We call intuition here the sympathy by which one is transported into the interior of an object in order to coincide with what there is unique and consequently inexpressible in it. Analysis, on the contrary, is the operation which reduces the object to elements already known. - Henri Bergson

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. - Aristotle

There are two things which will always be very difficult for a democratic nation: to start a war and to end it. - Alexis de Tocqueville

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself. - Oscar Wilde