Monday, October 19, 2009

Once the People Begin to Reason - All is Lost

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It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. – Oscar Wilde

The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people meaner. – Karl Kraus

Once the people begin to reason, all is lost. – Voltaire

The people are that part of the state that does not know what it wants. – Georoge Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel

Pessimist: one who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both. – Oscar Wilde

If you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants. – Nietzsche

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it. – Albert Camus

Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others. – Oscar Wilde



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