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You should keep on learning as long as there is something you do not know.
It's not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
Not to feel one's misfortunes is not human, not to bear them is not manly.
Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
Take away ambition and vanity, and where will be your heroes and patriots?
No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
Retirement without literary amusements is death itself, and a living tomb.
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
A Pharisee is someone who is virtuous out of obedience to the Great Beast.
The poet produces the beautiful by fixing his attention on something real.
While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive.
When a woman is allowed to become a man's equal, she becomes his superior.
Since I am convinced that I wrong no one, I am not likely to wrong myself.
The same wind is blowing, and yet one of us may be cold and the other not.
The understanding of mathematics is necessary for a sound grasp of ethics.
Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.
The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.
There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
Evolution of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence.
You are not the body. You are the immensity and infinity of consciousness.
What you need will come to you if you do not ask for what you do not need.
The poet laureate of England talked about murdering Jews on the West Bank.
Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature.
So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened.
Is there a necessary succession in style, or are these things pure chance?
Terror of the future can be put out to pasture with psychedelic shamanism.
Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
Neither in tailoring nor in legislating does man proceed by mere accident.
Woe to him, . . . who has no court of appeal against the world's judgment.
The crash of the whole solar and stellar systems could only kill you once.
Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.
Parties on the back of Parties, at war with the world and with each other.
I have no patience whatever with these gorilla damnifications of humanity.
A false man found a religion? Why, a false man cannot build a brick house!
Curiosity draws a man from consideration of the effect, to seek the cause.
Absolutely nothing is so important for a nation's culture as its language.
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
The mere possibility provides no warrant for denying what I clearly grasp.
God is one, greatest of gods and men, not like mortals in body or thought.
The coming of honor or disgrace must be a reflection of one's inner power.
A petty thief is put in jail. A great brigand becomes a ruler of a Nation.
My opinion is that you never find happiness until you stop looking for it.
Where is that man who has forgotten words that I may have a word with him?
No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine.