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People sometimes fail to live because they are always preparing to live.
You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.
As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.
[To Aquinas] the intellect [stands] at the summit of ... the human soul.
The investigation of the meaning of words is the beginning of education.
States are doomed when they are unable to distinguish good men from bad.
If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.
Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.
Happiness is the utilization of one's talents along lines of excellence.
And yet the true creator is necessity, which is the mother of invention.
Without virtue it is difficult to bear gracefully the honors of fortune.
Whereas the law is passionless, passion must ever sway the heart of man.
In educating the young we steer them by the rudders of pleasure and pain
A man can make up his mind quickly when he has only a little to make up.
Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.
To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.
We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.
If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.
What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry.
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
Mathematics is only the art of saying the same thing in different words.
Look at me. Look at me is one of the fundamental desires of human heart.
Bad philosophers may have a certain influence; good philosophers, never.
The boys throw rocks at the frogs in jest. But the frogs die in earnest.
Bion insisted on the principle that "The property of friends is common."
I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.
It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
A lion chased me up a tree, and I greatly enjoyed the view from the top.
He who wished to secure the good of others, has already secured his own.
Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly.
By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.
He who merely knows right principles is not equal to him who loves them.
I am not concerned that I am not known, I seek to be worthy to be known.
Not too isolated, not too many relationships, the middle, that's wisdom.
The only people who cannot change are the most wise and the most stupid.
confining life to an eternal present is an insidious form of soul murder
Hatred of injustice is not the same thing as a love for everyday people.
There has certainly been ugly, right-wing hatred targeting Barack Obama.
When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
Cost is always an object - the second law of thermodynamics sees to that
Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived.
Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
It is godlike ever to think on something beautiful and on something new.
Tis hard to fight with anger but the prudent man keeps it under control.
Those who fear the facts will forever try to discredit the fact-finders.
What a fine comedy this world would be if one did not play a part in it.
The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.
Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
Democritus says, "But we know nothing really; for truth lies deep down".