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New media are new archetypes, at first disguised as degradations of older media.
It is not the nature of the task, but its consecration, that is the vital thing.
We will look upon the earth and her sister planets as being with us, not for us.
God is not found in the soul by adding anything but by a process of subtraction.
Not all of those who cry 'The poor, the poor!' will enter the kingdom of heaven.
I am hopelessly in love with a memory. An echo from another time, another place.
To change something in the minds of people - that's the role of an intellectual.
It might be said that all knowledge is linked to the essential forms of cruelty.
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature.
Machine intelligence is the last invention that humanity will ever need to make.
Tomorrow! - Why, tomorrow I may be Myself with yesterday's sev'n thousand years.
Ah, take the Cash, and let the Credit go, Nor heed the rumble of a distant Drum!
We Germans will never produce another Goethe, but we may produce another Caesar.
An individual's arrogance is always in proportion to his lack of self-assurance.
If you want to change people's obedience then you must change their imagination.
This atheism concerning the gods of men pertains hereafter to any possible faith
Knowing that we can control our own behaviour makes it more likely that we will.
Isolation is a blind alley....Nothing on the planet grows except by convergence.
Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.
From an evolutionary point of view, man has stopped moving, if he ever did move.
Evolution is a light illuminating all facts, a curve that all lines must follow.
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
To begin is the most important part of any quest and by far the most courageous.
The cause of all sins in every case lies in the person's excessive love of self.
A certain portion of mankind do not believe at all in the existence of the gods.
As it is, the lover of inquiry must follow his beloved wherever it may lead him.
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.
You are never alone or helpless. The force that guides the stars guides you too.
A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.
Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it does not matter.
When a woman cries date rape what she means is the whole thing went too quickly.
Is not the most erotic part of the body wherever the clothing affords a glimpse?
Literature is that which he can not read without pain, without choking on truth.
We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.
Be not dazzled by beauty, but look for those inward qualities which are lasting.
There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.
Philosophy is good advice, and no one gives good advice at the top of his lungs.
God has given some gifts to the whole human race, from which no one is excluded.
Corporeal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.
This is the reason we cannot complain of life: it keeps no one against his will.
To the person who does not know where he wants to go there is no favorable wind.
Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness.
Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm & constant.
A disorderly mob is no more an army than a heap of building materials is a house
Nobody knows anything, but I, knowing nothing, am the smartest man in the world.
A singularity is a place where the rules are broken. A miracle is a singularity.
The apocalypse is the millennium, and the psychedelics move you into the future.