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For the religious the holy is truth, for the philosophic the truth is holy.
You call it a 'loophole' when the government still allows you some freedom.
Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.
What has to be accepted, the given, is - so one could say - forms of life .
A picture whose pictorial form is logical form is called a logical picture.
Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.
We ought to regard amiability as the quality of woman, dignity that of man.
I do not understand what the man who is happy wants in order to be happier.
As the grace of man is in the mind, so the beauty of the mind is eloquence.
What is becoming is honest, and whatever is honest must always be becoming.
Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.
No well-informed person has declared a change of opinion to be inconstancy.
The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man.
In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred.
Patria est communis omnium parens. Our country is the common parent of all.
Ignorance of impending evil is far better than a knowledge of its approach.
I wish you would grow to the understanding that you choose heterosexuality.
Either kill me or take me as I am, because I'll be damned if I ever change.
The impossibility of outraging nature is the greatest anguish man can know.
Antipathy, dissimilarity of views, hate, contempt, can accompany true love.
We have be-come irrevocably involved with, and responsible for, each other.
To produce is to draw forth, to invent is to find, to shape is to discover.
Understanding a metaphor is like deciphering a code or unraveling a riddle.
Property exists by grace of the law. It is not a fact, but a legal fiction.
Everything is full and pure at its source and precisely there, not outside.
When God sends his angel to the soul it becomes the one who knows for sure.
The best things in life come in threes, like friends, dreams, and memories.
If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good.
The philosopher ought never to try to avoid the duty of making up his mind.
Dead yesterdays and unborn tomorrows, why fret about it, if today be sweet.
I wonder what the vintners buy one half so precious as the stuff they sell.
A Judge must bear in mind that when he tries a case he is himself on trial.
Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on Simplicity.
Money-makers are tiresome company, as they have no standard but cash value.
The man who hath music in his soul will be most in love with the loveliest.
The cure of the part should not be attempted without the cure of the whole.
Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.
Some thoughtlessly proclaim the Muses nine: A tenth is Sappho, maid divine.
As it is, lovers of inquiry must follow their beloved wherever it may lead.
If the head and the body are to be well, you must begin by curing the soul.
Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.
He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.
What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.
Where character forbids self-indulgence, transcendence still hovers around.
Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way.
A lot of the Qur'an is, frankly, cantankerous, vitriolic, man-hating stuff.
Anthroposophie is not a religion but a tool for understanding of religions.
There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
The real compensation of a right action is inherent in having performed it.