Robert Spaemann
View AuthorTo forgive is to not take too much into account the limitations and flaws of the other, to not take them too seriously, but to diminish their importance, with good humor, saying: 'I know you're not like that!'
Robert Spaemann
View AuthorThe dependence of people on television is the most destructive fact of current civilization.
Robert Spaemann
View AuthorTelevision systematically destroys the distinction between normal and abnormal, because within its parameters, normal lacks sufficient interest and therefore always needs to be contrasted with an alternative. Its criteria are not the dissemination of values and principles, but rather to provoke the greatest impact.
Herbert Spencer
View AuthorThe object of education is to form beings capable of governing themselves, and not to be governed by others.
Herbert Spencer
View AuthorIf men use their freedom in such a way that they renounce it, can they be considered any less slaves? If the people choose by plebiscite a despot to govern them, are they still free because despotism has been their own doing?
Herbert Spencer
View AuthorTime: what men always try to kill, but ends up killing them.
Herbert Spencer
View AuthorProgress is not an accident, it is a necessity, a part of nature.
Herbert Spencer
View AuthorTrain yourself instead of waiting to be trained and shaped.
Herbert Spencer
View AuthorIf it is a duty to respect the rights of others, it is also a duty to maintain one's own.
Baruch Spinoza
View AuthorI regret nothing. The one who regrets what they have done is doubly miserable.
Baruch Spinoza
View AuthorIf you do not want to repeat the past, study it.
Baruch Spinoza
View AuthorOnly that which exists out of the needs of its own nature and whose actions originate exclusively within itself is free.