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A man who does not think and plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door.
Those who are firm, enduring, simple and unpretentious are the nearest to virtue.
Give a man a fish, feed home for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed for a lifetime.
To know everything is to know nothing, but to know nothing is to know everything.
If I do not participate in the sacrifice, it is as if I did not sacrifice at all.
A man who reviews the old so as to find out the new is qualified to teach others.
Love makes a spot beautiful: who chooses not to dwell in love, has he got wisdom?
If you view life as a gold rush, you're going to end up worshiping a golden calf.
Jesus is the human face on the kingdom of God. He makes it concretely accessible.
I do emphasize that we cannot just get out of the Bible a definition of the soul.
To hate, to love, to think, to feel, to see; all this is nothing but to perceive.
A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.
A little philosophy makes a man an Atheist: a great deal converts him to religion
.. the voice of nature and experience seems plainly to oppose the selfish theory.
I am Diogenes the Dog. I nuzzle the kind, bark at the greedy and bite scoundrels.
When one maintains his proper attitude in life, he does not long after externals.
Seek not good from without; seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.
The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know.
To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
Woe to him inside a non-conformist clique who does not conform to non-conformity.
The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.
There can be no mass movement without some deliberate misrepresentation of facts.
The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release.
The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it.
The pint would call the quart a dualist, if you tried to pour the quart into him.
The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism.
Tomes of aesthetic criticism hang on a few moments of real delight and intuition.
Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.
Man need not be degraded to a machine by being denied to be a ghost in a machine.
Our bodily eye findeth never an end, but is vanquished by the immensity of space.
God either rules as sovereign in interpretation over *all* areas of life or none.
Mother of Marvels, mysterious and tender Nature, why do we not live more in thee.
He who is too much afraid of being duped has lost the power of being magnanimous.
It is difficult to fight against anger; for a man will buy revenge with his soul.
The Lord whose oracle is at Delphi neither reveals nor conceals, but gives a sign
There is harmony in the tension of opposites, as in the case of the bow and lyre.
Brain science will be the most popular science of the early twenty-first century.
All appearances are real and negatio; sophistical: All reality must be sensation.
Act so that the maxim of your act could be made the principle of a universal law.
Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
A lie is the abandonment and, as it were, the annihilation of the dignity by man.
The aim of modern propaganda is no longer to modify ideas, but to provoke action.
Art does not die because there is no more art. It dies because there is too much.
It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.
Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
I admire [Samuel] Beckett, but I am totally against him. He seeks no improvement.
There is no book of mine that I reject. That does not mean that I find them good.
It is the same: a chosen one is a man whom God's finger crushes against the wall.