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The object of knowledge is what exists and its function to know about reality.
Love' is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.
... the good are not willing to rule either for the sake of money or of honor.
When a man drinks wine at dinner, he begins to be better pleased with himself.
If there is no contradictory impression, there is nothing to awaken reflection
To be sure I must; and therefore I may assume that your silence gives consent.
Before all, be real. Only the truth gives to the word the Orpheus' Lyre power.
I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error.
Only the refusal to listen guarantees one against being ensnared by the truth.
When art becomes merely shock value, our sense of humanity is slowly degraded.
The music takes over the words and makes them speak to me in another language.
Man does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual.
When you die, it will not be because you are sick, but because you were alive.
What a vile and abject thing is man if he do not raise himself above humanity.
Let us say what we feel, and feel what we say; let speech harmonize with life.
Look at the stars lighting up the sky: no one of them stays in the same place.
The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.
So called pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments.
The way is long if one follows precepts, but short... if one follows patterns.
Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
The beauty of the world is Christ's tender smile for us coming through matter.
Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.
Whatever matters to human beings, trust is the atmosphere in which it thrives.
To Believe without evidence and demonstration is an act of ignorance and folly
Is it not, then, better to be ridiculous and friendly than clever and hostile?
To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous.
Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
That is the road we all have to take - over the Bridge of Sight into eternity.
The wisdom of the years is confusing. Only the wisdom of eternity is edifying.
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
Language has time as its element; all other media have space as their element.
The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race.
War is a dangerous teacher and physical victory leads often to a moral defeat.
Real happiness is not vulnerable, because it does not depend on circumstances.
In reality there are no others, and -helping yourself you help everybody else.
You see, a secret is not something untold. It’s something which can’t be told.
I don’t know what life is like without cannabis, I hear there is such a thing.
The way I think of the psychedelics is, they are catalysts to the imagination.
I connect the psychedelic dimension to the dimension of inspiration and dream.
The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.
Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
All evil is like a nightmare; the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone.
He that has a secret should not only hide it, but hide that he has it to hide.
Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.
Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.
If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.
In a perfect world, we would not keep animals for our benefit, including pets.
How a person masters his or her fate is more important than what that fate is.
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.