Occupation: Writer Birth: April 6, 1812 Death: January 21, 1870
History is the autobiography of a madman..
There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it..
What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within wh….
I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such feebleness of tho….
The world will not know liberty until all that is religious and political is transformed into something simple and human and made susceptible to crit….
Science even more than the Gospel teaches us humility. She cannot look down on anything, she does not know what superiority means, she despises nothi….
Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a constant submissio….
The Death of the contemporary forms of social order ought to gladden rather than trouble the soul. Yet what is frightening is that the departing worl….
This socialism will develop in all its phases until it reaches its own extremes and absurdities. Then once again a cry of denial will break from the ….
History knocks at a thousand gates at every moment, and the gatekeeper is chance. We shout into the mist for this one or that one to be opened for us….
Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and accustomed to the new scener….
People who have realized that this is a dream imagine that it is easy to wake up, and are angry with those who continue sleeping, not considering tha….
All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why they have always been more pernicious than any poli….
To build a city where it is impossible to build a city is madness in itself, but to build there one of the most elegant and grandest of cities is the….
We think the purpose of a child is to grow up because it does grow up. But its purpose is to play, to enjoy itself, to be a child. If we merely look ….
Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live..
Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit. This is the fine point on which all legal professions of history have based their job s….
It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon proved this..
False gods must be repudiated, but that is not all: The reasons for their existence must be sought beneath their masks..
The liberty of the individual is the greatest thing of all, it is on this and this alone that the true will of the people can develop..
The people is always expressive of the truth. The life of a people cannot be a lie..