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Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play it more by watching it than by consulting any book, including the holy book. Small wonder, then, that so many play dirty, that so few win, that so many lose.

The philosopher ought never to try to avoid the duty of making up his mind.

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight.

To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his “divine service.”

The self is hateful.

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.