There are no rights without obligations, just as there are no obligations without rights.
No one fights against freedom, at most, man fights against the freedom of others.
No one is bound to marry, but everyone, after marrying, is bound to observe the laws of marriage.
"Public education with the help of the state" has no value. On the contrary, the state needs a very strict education from the people.
The moral state demands of its members a state way of thinking, even if they come into opposition to the state authority, to the government.
Events moderate people as much as people shape events.
Society is the essential communion of man with nature, the true resurrection of nature, naturalism realized by man and humanism realized by nature.
An act of violence can only be eradicated by another act of violence.
Experience makes the happiest the one who brought happiness to the greatest number of people.
To be modest in relation to immodesty is the worst immodesty of the spirit.
Desperation for one's own salvation turns personal weaknesses into weaknesses of humanity to ease one's conscience.
The first premise of all human history is, of course, the existence of living individuals.
The writer does not look at his work as a means. His work is an end in itself; this is not a means, either for him or for others, namely that the writer sacrifices his means of existence to work, and when necessary even his personal existence.
The writer must of course earn in order to be able to exist and write, but in no case does he have to exist and write in order to earn.
Almost every divorce means the dissolution of the family, and even from a strictly legal point of view, the situation of the children and their property cannot be left to the arbitrary discretion of the parents. Thus, only the individual will, or rather the free will of the spouses, is taken into account, but the will of marriage, the moral substance of this relationship, is not taken into account.
First of all, the opposition between "society" as an abstraction and the individual must be avoided.
The individual is a social being. Therefore, any manifestation of its life - even if it does not represent a form of collectivity - is a manifestation and an affirmation of social life.
Self-loathing is a snake that both poisons and tortures your heart, sucking the life-giving blood and pouring into it the poison of hatred and despair.
A ghost haunts Europe - the ghost of communism.
To take one as the basis of life and another as the basis of science is to allow the lie from the very beginning.
It is disgusting to be under the yoke, even in the name of freedom.
The process of human life consists in passing through different ages. However, all ages of man coexist with each other.
Even if life dies, death must not live.
Do I not destroy the freedom of a species, when I insist that it be free in a way foreign to it?
Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
Religion is a sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, as is the lifeless spirit. Religion is the opium of the people.
Religion is only an illusory sun that moves around man, until he begins to move around himself.
Religion is self-consciousness and the consciousness of man who has either not yet found himself or has lost himself again.
It is not about drawing a line between the past and the future, but about realizing the thoughts of the past.
Luxury is the antithesis of natural necessity.