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I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others

Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.

The good of the people is the highest law.

Self-consciousness exists in and for itself when, and by the fact that, it so exists for another; that is, it exists only in being acknowledged

Nothing can be created from nothing.

Therefore it is necessary to arrive at a prime mover, put in motion by no other; and this everyone understands to be God.

In masculine hands logic is often a form of violence, a sly kind of tyranny.

Philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it.

He who establishes a tyranny and does not kill Brutus, and he who establishes a democratic regime and does not kill the sons of Brutus, will not last long.

Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.

Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.

Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.

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There can be no other truth to take off from than this: I think, therefore, I exist. There we have the absolute truth of consciousness becoming aware of itself.

Nature abhors a vacuum.

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of society is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.

I worry about the worth of philosophy done by philosophers who have been trained in nothing else.

The history of all hitherto existing societies is the history of class struggle.

Suicide is not abominable because God prohibits it; God prohibits it because it is abominable.