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In a certain sense, Zen is feeling life instead of feeling something about life.
Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap.
The hallucination of being a separate ego will not stand up to biological tests.
Truth has been displaced as a value and replaced by psychological effectiveness.
As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.
Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes.
The democrats think that as they are equal they ought to be equal in all things.
We are the sum of our actions, and therefore our habits make all the difference.
Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.
All that one gains by falsehood is, not to be believed when he speaks the truth.
There is nothing strange in the circle being the origin of any and every marvel.
A good thing which prevents us from enjoying a greater good is in truth an evil.
If facts conflict with a theory, either the theory must be changed or the facts.
According as each has been educated, so he repents of or glories in his actions.
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
People are zealous for a cause when they are not quite positive that it is true.
How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich.
Punctuality is a quality the need of which is bound up with social co-operation.
The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.
Happiness does not consist in having what you want, but in wanting what you have
He who cannot describe the problem will never find the solution to that problem.
He who flatters a man is his enemy. he who tells him of his faults is his maker.
Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.
Only by perfect virtue can the perfect path, in all its courses, be made a fact.
If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things.
If you don't know the life yet, how could be possible for you to know the death?
Gentlemen should not waste their time on trivial games -- they should play go[3]
Black people have always been America's wilderness in search of a promised land.
I must feel the fire of my soul so my intellectual blues can set others on fire.
It's very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
Nothing exists without a cause, the original cause of this universe we call God.
The beginning of philosophy is the recognition of the conflict between opinions.
We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.
The taint inherent in absolute power is not its inhumanity but its antihumanity.
The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
The magic of the pen lies in the concentration of your thoughts upon one object.
We are not guilty because we are depraved; we are depraved because we are guilty
the rule of Nobody ... is what the political form known as bureaucracy truly is.
Courage is indispensible because in politics not life but the world is at stake.
Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.
The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others lives unblest!
Though wisdom is common, yet the many live as if they had a wisdom of their own.
Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing for the known way is an impasse.
Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity…It is a part of nature.
Never educate a child to be a gentleman or lady alone, but to be a man, a woman.
That sometimes clear ... and sometimes vague stuff ... which is ... mathematics.
Out of the crooked timber of humanity, nothing completely straight was ever made
When thought races ahead of Being, a civilization is racing towards destruction.