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We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God's great universe.
Eloquence, when in its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection.
Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it.
What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.
Xenophanes speaks thus:-And no man knows distinctly anything,And no man ever will.
Plato affirmed that the soul was immortal and clothed in many bodies successively.
One of the sophisms of Chrysippus was, "If you have not lost a thing, you have it.
If you cannot find the truth within yourself, where else do you expect to find it?
If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.
Wordiness is a sickness of American writing. Too many words dilute and blur ideas.
It is startling to realize how much unbelief is necessary to make belief possible.
Our quarrel with the world is an echo of the endless quarrel proceeding within us.
Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.
Lovely promise and quick ruin are seen nowhere better than in Gothic architecture.
Beautiful things, when taste is formed, are obviously and unaccountably beautiful.
In searching for the self, one cannot simultaneously be the hunter and the hunted.
Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.
Philosophy is transcendental homelessness; it is the urge to be at home everywhere
The essence of the question is the opening up, and keeping open, of possibilities.
One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit.
A thousand things advance; nine hundred and ninety nine retreat; That is progress.
The immense majority of our species are candidates for humanity, and nothing more.
A revolution that does not produce a new space has not realized its full potential
The mind is never more highly gratified than in contemplating a natural landscape.
Everything flows and nothing abides. Everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.
It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine.
One will only be free when one plays and one's society will become a piece of art.
The "Creed of Christendom" is alien to my nature, both emotional and intellectual.
In the supremacy of self-control consists one of the perfections of the ideal man.
... causes (pains) are not logical constructions out of their effects (behaviour).
The first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds.
There is no human life so poor and small as not to hold many a divine possibility.
When the real is no longer what it used to be, nostalgia assumes its full meaning.
I would like the last of the kings to be strangled by the guts of the last priest.
To love someone is to show to them their beauty, their worth and their importance.
We work for peace every time we exercise authority with wisdom and authentic love.
Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.
Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.
What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
Once freedom lights its beacon in man's heart, the gods are powerless against him.
Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.
I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
What's done at night belongs to the night. In the daytime you don't talk about it.
If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.
When one loves animals and children too much, one loves them against human beings.
Etymologically, the word education means just a process of leading or bringing up.
Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.
The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.