Tag: philosophy

Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all....

One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been....

The only way we’ll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba — yes Cuba too....

I am a sick man… I am a spiteful man. I am an unpleasant man. I think my liver is diseased. However, I don’t know beans about my disease, and I am not sure what is bothering me. I don’t treat...

The pianokeys are black and whitebut they sound like a million colors in your mind...

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy...

Learned we may be with another man’s learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own....

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies....

It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are....

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children....