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He who crosses the ocean twice without washing is a dirty double crosser.
When three persons work together, each can be the teacher in some aspects
Which demands a lot of himself and some others, will be free from hatred.
People with virtue must speak out; People who speak are not all virtuous.
If an urn lacks the characteristics of an urn, how can we call it an urn?
If a man be under the influence of anger his conduct will not be correct.
When we are formed inwardly, outer issues do become much more manageable.
We know we can't be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
The way evolution always discovers reasons is by retroactive endorsement.
Truth is verifiable only by identity with it and not by knowing about it.
It is... a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
My enemy is not the man who wrongs me, but the man who means to wrong me.
Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.
Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
Men have made an idol of luck as an excuse for their own thoughtlessness.
It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours.
We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.
The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.
A war is not won if the defeated enemy has not been turned into a friend.
The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress.
A successful account enables us to understand human knowledge in general.
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is possible.
To him who looks at the world rationally the world looks rationally back.
The lot of critics is to be remembered by what they failed to understand.
The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend.
People never believe in volcanoes until the lava actually overtakes them.
Philosophy is the replacement of category-habits by category-disciplines.
It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.
Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.
It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
Only evil grows of itself, while for goodness we want effort and courage.
Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls.
Opinion is the companion of probability within the medieval epistemology.
In each case you settle on an act. Doing nothing at all counts as an act.
We do not need to have a way to talk clearly about other people's images.
One of Kuhn's marvellous legacies is science studies as we know it today.
I am an investigator by inclination. I feel a great thirst for knowledge.
Man relates to material things through direct insight rather than reason.
And an apprenticeship to whatever gadgetry is useful in a technical world
Art is no longer anything more than a kind of meta-language for banality.
The ruling class is and will continue to be the class of decision makers.
The want of occupation is no less the plague of society than of solitude.
Men, in general, are not this or that, they are what they are made to be.
Why do you keep maintaining your ideas are right if you can't prove them?
All learning begins when our comfortable ideas turn out to be inadequate.
We do not learn from experience...we learn from reflecting on experience.