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To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.
Stars are holes in the sky from which the light of the infinite shines.
When you breathe, you inspire, and when you do not breathe, you expire.
If my mind be not engaged in worship, it is as though I worshipped not.
Every thoughtful pin on pinterest has beauty. But not everyone can see.
To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous.
A gentleman considers what is right; the vulgar consider what will pay.
A happy union with wife and child is like the music of lutes and harps.
Straight-forwardness, without the rules of propriety, becomes rudeness.
To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.
It's impossible to translate Wall Street greed into one or two demands.
You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don't think him competent.
We are human only in contact, and conviviality, with what is not human.
Virtue, like wholesome food, is better than poisons, however corrected.
The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
I would rather discover one true cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.
There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
The perception of duration itself presupposes a duration of perception.
The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight.
Many of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a sinner.
In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future.
Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled.
It is nationalism which engenders nations, and not the other way round.
Three-quarters of a soldier's life is spent in aimlessly waiting about.
On a grassroots level we say that man can touch more than he can grasp.
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk.
The people are that part of the state that does not know what it wants.
Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.
But from the hoop's bewitching round, Her very shoe has power to wound.
The one who does not remember history is bound to live through it again
The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.
Vergleichende Anatomie der Engel. On the comparative anatomy of angels.
It is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent
The conflict between art and politics... cannot and must not be solved.
Happiness does away with ugliness, and even makes the beauty of beauty.
Righteous ends, thus approved, absolve of guilt the most violent means.
So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.
The people must fight on behalf of the law as though for the city wall.
Theology is that discipline whereby we stop talking nonsense about God.
Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.
If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.
Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
The public school has become the established church of secular society.
To deschool means to abolish the power of one person to oblige another.
There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God.
Money is like a mirror to our culture. What we see tells us who we are.
Illusion is no longer possible, because the real is no longer possible.
There is nothing stronger than a heart which loves and is freely given.