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Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.
The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.
Since I don't believe in externalism, I don't think it can explain consciousness!
I like to think of myself as a naturalist - insofar as that term is at all clear.
The State is not in itself an end, but is only a means towards human development.
...as I apprehend the Buddhist doctrine of karma, I agree in principle with that.
In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important as remembering.
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man's thoughts and another's.
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
Rejoicing not in the many but in the probity of the few, we toil for truth alone.
The Way is to man as rivers and lakes are to fish, the natural condition of life.
Are you and I perchance caught up in a dream from which we have not yet awakened?
You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
Do you see yourself as a victim of the world, or do you see yourself as the world?
I want ... to consort with people whose emotions are not ... cold and standoffish.
Our problem is not that we aim too high and miss, but that we aim too low and hit.
To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.
Happiness involves engagement in activities that promote one's highest potentials.
It is the repeated performance of just and temperate actions that produces virtue.
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
A tragedy is that moment where the hero comes face to face with his true identity.
The Eyes are the organs of temptation, and the Ears are the organs of instruction.
In inventing a model we may assume what we wish, but should avoid impossibilities.
If the hammer and the shuttle could move themselves, slavery would be unnecessary.
Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be.
The law does not expressly permit suicide, and what it does not permit it forbids.
That body is heavier than another which, in an equal bulk, moves downward quicker.
Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
We deceive and flatter no one by such delicate artificies as we do our own selves.
The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.
Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people's.
Dread of disaster makes everybody act in the very way that increases the disaster.
I don't like the spirit of socialism - I think freedom is the basis of everything.
Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.
To discover a system for the avoidance of war is a vital need of our civilisation.
The rules of logic are to mathematics what those of structure are to architecture.
The true spirit of delight...is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.
Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
The pragmatist knows that doubt is an art which hs to be acquired with difficulty.
What you know, you know, what you don't know, you don't know. This is true wisdom.
Rather than caring about whether or not you are known, strive to be worth knowing.
If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Justice is like the north star, which is fixed, and all the rest revolve about it.
To be poor without murmuring is difficult. To be rich without being proud is easy.
If a superior man abandon virtue, how can he fulfil the requirements of that name?
To live is to wrestle with despair, yet never allow despair to have the last word.
I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism--the idolatry of the 20th century.