Liberty is not an end, but a means. Whoever mistakes it for an end does not know what to do once he attains it.
– Nicols Gmez Dvila
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- Liberty is not an end, but a means. Whoever mistakes it for an end does not know what to do once he attains it. – Nicols Gmez Dvila
- Modern man is a prisoner who thinks he is free because he refrains from touching the walls of his dungeon. – Nicols Gmez Dvila
- Modern man is a prisoner who thinks he is free because he refrains from touching thewalls of his dungeon. – Nicols Gmez Dvila
- In unremarkable texts we soon trip on phrases that penetrate into us, as if a sword has thrust up to its hilt inside us. – Nicols Gmez Dvila
- Everything that makes man feel that mystery envelops him makes him more intelligent. – Nicols Gmez Dvila
- To be right is just one more reason not to achieve any success. – Nicols Gmez Dvila
- Swimming against the current is not idiotic if the waters are racing toward a waterfall. – Nicols Gmez Dvila
- The individual seeks out the heat of the crowd, in this century, to protect himself against the cold emanating from the corpse of the world. – Nicols Gmez Dvila
- Being a reactionary is not about believing in certain solutions, but about having an acute sense of the complexity of the problems. – Nicols Gmez Dvila
- The particular creature we love is never God’s rival. What ends in apostasy is the worship of man, the cult of humanity. – Nicols Gmez Dvila
- Hierarchies are celestial. In hell all are equal. – Nicols Gmez Dvila
- Ideas tyrannize the man who has but few. – Nicols Gmez Dvila
- Females are very simple, with them, yes means yes, & no means yes, & no means no, & no means maybe, but maybe means yes, & maybe means no! – Eyden I
- The simplistic ideas in which the unbeliever ends up believing are his punishment. – Nicols Gmez
- Where faith increases, liberty follows.-The Liberty Book – The Liberty Book
- If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. – George Orwell
- Whoever teaches learns in the act of teaching, and whoever learns teaches in the act of learning. – Paulo Freire
- Whoever you are, go out into the evening,leaving your room, of which you know every bit;your house is the last before the infinite,whoever you are. – Rainer Maria Rilke
- Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much – Anonymous
- Whoever sees me sees the teaching, and whoever sees the teaching sees me. – Gautama Buddha
- Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech. – Benjamin Franklin
- A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever. – John Adams
- Love covers all shortcomings and failures, overlooks one’s mistakes and does not bring to mind one’s past mistakes – My Last Letter, Chapter 1 – Santosh Avvannavar
- When one sees one’s own faults, he attains a state of an abode of Self-illuminated Bliss! – Dada Bhagwan
- When the outside intent (other than the intent of Pure Soul, Parbhaav) stops, he attains enlightened bliss of the Self (samadhi). – Dada Bhagwan
- The ruler attains wholeness in the correct governance of the people. – Lao Tzu
- If one attains awareness of own’s own Self’s authority [power], even for a moment, he can become a Parmatma (Absolute Supreme Self). – Dada Bhagwan
- If in the laukik (worldly life), one attains the vision of alaukik (beyond the world), his work is accomplished. – Dada Bhagwan
- The world is the puzzle, itself. The one who solves this -˜puzzle’ attains the degree of Parmatma [the Absolute Supreme Self]. – Dada Bhagwan
- What are dualities? They are what creates the worldly life [sansaar]. And if one attains Liberation [moksha], he will be beyond dualities! – Dada Bhagwan
- That which never attains a state of non-principle [non-truth] is known as the principle. – Dada Bhagwan
- My love for you attains immortality whenever it is touched by the thought of death – Munia Khan
- When one attains self-knowledge, distinctions of race and religion vanish. – Abhijit Naskar
- They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. – Benjamin Franklin
- Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. – Benjamin Franklin
- I’m convinced that the greatest lover of freedom & liberty is God almighty himself. He gave us free will, the greatest liberty of all. – Justin Steckbauer
- A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue. – Daniel Webster
- Liberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty as well as by the abuses of power. – James Madison
- Old: Give me liberty or give me death. – New: Give me liberty or give me debt. – Orrin Woodward
- Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. – Benjamin Franklin