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He, who holds out but a doubtful hope of succour to the afflicted, denies it.
Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own.
We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
Men owe us what we imagine they will give us. We must forgive them this debt.
If there were no affliction in this world we might think we were in paradise.
In Stalinism, everybody was potentially a victim in a totally contingent way.
Whoever would have his body supple, easy and healthful should learn to dance.
Sometimes you have to let go to see if there was anything worth holding onto.
Give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and inward may be one.
Regard your good name as the richest jewel yoou can possibly be possessed of.
One cannot come closer to the gods than by bringing health to his Fellow Man.
To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.
People settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness.
The notion that Jews are mythic creatures is well circulating in our culture.
Every step into freedom contains within it the potential for greater bondage.
LSD is different. LSD is like psychoanalytical Drano. It's not a personality.
Without sounding too cliche, the Internet really is the birth of global mind.
Time is the wisest of all things that are; for it brings everything to light.
Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
Prayer is and remains always a native and deepest impulse of the soul of man.
A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.
Courtesy is the due of man to man; not of suit-of-clothes to suit-of-clothes.
The English are a dumb people. They can do great acts, but not describe them.
Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome.
Understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is.
All the evil in the world, and all the unhappiness, comes from the I-concept.
Only what we have wrought into our character during life can we take with us.
When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.
Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can have a word with him?
The first task of the association must therefore be to form the young members.
Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be
No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen.
Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat's entrails with horsehair.
Maybe violent wickedness can be decapitated, but stupidity has too many heads.
Where your talents and the needs of the world cross; there lies your vocation.
Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.
A democracy when put to the strain grows weak, and is supplanted by Oligarchy.
No one who desires to become good will become good unless he does good things.
If men are given food, but no chastisement nor any work, they become insolent.
To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it.
The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
A good style must have an air of novelty, at the same time concealing its art.
No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.
To desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake
A happy life is impossible; the best that a man can attain is a heroic life.
Console yourself by remembering that the world doesn't deserve your affection.