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#1

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe

#2

“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: albert-einstein, future, war, wisdom

5152 likes

#3

“That's what education should be," I said, "the art of orientation. Educators should devise the simplest and most effective methods of turning minds around. It shouldn't be the art of implanting sight in the organ, but should proceed on the understanding that the organ already has the capacity, but is improperly aligned and isn't facing the right way.”
― Plato, The Republic

tags: education, teaching

111 likes

#4

“Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.”
― Plato, The Republic

tags: excess, individual, liberty, slavery, state

108 likes

#5

“Those who don't know must learn from those who do.”
― Plato, The Republic

tags: knowledge, learning, teaching

81 likes

#6

“Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance”
― Plato, The Republic

tags: ignorance, knowledge, opinion

69 likes

#7

“Appearance tyrannizes over truth.”
― Plato, The Republic

tags: politics, reputation

36 likes

#8

“And then, at this stage, every dictator comes up with the notorious and typical demand: he asks the people for bodyguards to protect him, the people's champion.”
― Plato, The Republic

35 likes

#9

“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

6672 likes

#10

“If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.”
― Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

tags: political-philosophy

1212 likes

#11

“The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

tags: philosophy

1158 likes

#12

“The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

1112 likes

#13

“Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

tags: deception

964 likes

#14

“it is much safer to be feared than loved because ...love is preserved by the link of obligation which, owing to the baseness of men, is broken at every opportunity for their advantage; but fear preserves you by a dread of punishment which never fails.”
― Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

866 likes

#15

“People should either be caressed or crushed. If you do them minor damage they will get their revenge; but if you cripple them there is nothing they can do. If you need to injure someone, do it in such a way that you do not have to fear their vengeance.”
― Niccolo Machiavelli

623 likes

#16

“…he who seeks to deceive will always find someone who will allow himself to be deceived.”
― Machiavelli Niccolo, The Prince

434 likes

#17

“Men in general judge more by the sense of sight than by the sense of touch, because everyone can see but few can test by feeling. Everyone sees what you seem to be, few know what you really are; and those few do not dare take a stand against the general opinion.”
― Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

424 likes

#18

“Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved”
― Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

396 likes

#19

“Men are so simple of mind, and so much dominated by their immediate needs, that a deceitful man will always find plenty who are ready to be deceived.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli

334 likes

#20

“There is no avoiding war, it can only be postponed to the advantage of your enemy.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli

131 likes

#21

“it is better to act and repent than not to act and regret.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Letters of Machiavelli : A Selection

128 likes

#22

“Everyone who wants to know what will happen ought to examine what has happened: everything in this world in any epoch has their replicas in antiquity.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli

tags: history

104 likes

#23

“Men sooner forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

62 likes

#24

“that men are quick to change ruler when they imagine they can improve their lot–it is this conviction that prompts them to take up arms and rebel– then later they discover they were wrong and that things have got worse rather than better.”
― Machiavelli

1 likes

#25

“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

tags: change, fear-of-change

2280 likes

#26

“We're always thinking of eternity as an idea that cannot be understood, something immense. But why must it be? What if, instead of all this, you suddenly find just a little room there, something like a village bath-house, grimy, and spiders in every corner, and that's all eternity is. Sometimes, you know, I can't help feeling that that's what it is.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

tags: eternity

710 likes

#27

“Power is given only to him who dares to stoop and take it ... one must have the courage to dare.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

tags: dare, power

564 likes

#28

“He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.”
― Emmanuel Kant

tags: animal-rights, cruelty, judge, morality, treatment

1003 likes

#29

“In a well governed state, there are few punishments, not because there are many pardons, but because criminals are rare; it is when a state is in decay that the multitude of crimes is a guarantee of impunity.”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

45 likes

#30

“A born king is a very rare being.”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

43 likes

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