Barkadas ‘99 Online

“Until Philosophers are kings…
cities will never have rest from their troubles”.

“If it is in our power to act nobly,
it is also in our power to do evil.”

“No pleasure is a bad thing in itself”

“Virtue is the foundation of friendship“

“…We live but for a moment”

“Too late have I come to love you, O beauty so ancient and so fresh”

“The good are always strong“

“Fortune favours the fool.”

“All princes have more delights in warlike matters… than in the good feats of peace”

“Men ought either to be well treated or crushed”

“Therefore, the earth is not flat”

“if a man … be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

“I think, therefore I am”

“…the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short”

“Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.”

“there can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope”

“I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.”

“I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts”

“The soul is the mirror of the universe”

“Essence IS perception”

“It is never possible to deduce judgements of value from matters of fact”

“Man was born free, and everywhere he is in irons”

“It is not from the benevolence of the.. baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.”

“Reason is the pupil of itself alone.
It is the oldest of the sciences”

“Mankind is governed by pain and pleasure“

“Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil”

“I do not wish them to have power over men; but over themselves.”

“Cruelty is a virtue, not a vice.”

“Society… cannot be regarded as composed of individuals..”

“War is the continuation of politics by other means”

“God is the absolute truth.”

“We can surely never arrive at the nature of things from without.”

“The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas.”

“Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.”

“It is never too late to give up our prejudices..”

“…endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.”

“When you stare into an abyss for a long time,
the abyss also stares into you”.

“If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide,
drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience”.

“…we men… find reality generally quite unsatisfactory”

“Gott würfelt nicht (God does not play dice)“

“The world is the totality of facts, not things.”

“The world is not there to be possessed
by the faint-hearted races”

“…logic and mathematics are true
simply because we never allow them to be anything else.”

“Once freedom has exploded in the soul of man,
the gods no longer have any power over him”

“Can machines think?”

“Science may be described as the art of
systematic oversimplification”