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Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
There is a wide difference between the original thinker and the merely learned man.
Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.
Measure, time and number are nothing but modes of thought or rather of imagination.
We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.
The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
The very best proof that something can be done is that someone has already done it.
Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.
It hurts the bald-head just as much as the thatched-head to have his hairs plucked.
It is not knowing, but the love of learning, that characterizes the scientific man.
The Fates guide the person who accepts them and hinder the person who resists them.
Study without reflection is a waste of time; reflection without study is dangerous.
The Superior Man is aware of Righteousness, the inferior man is aware of advantage.
Be strict with yourself but least reproachful of others and complaint is kept afar.
Learn, as if never overtaking your object, and yet as if apprehensive of losing it.
There is no body but eats and drinks. But they are few who can distinguish flavors.
To be an intellectual really means to speak a truth that allows suffering to speak.
I don't believe in the elimination of evil. But I believe in fightin' against evil.
For me, music is in no way ornamental or decorative, it's constitutive of who I am.
One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.
This life is not something that is imposed upon us; we receive it and work with it.
Life itself is just a thin coat of paint on the planet, and we hold the paintbrush.
There is a time for politeness and there is a time when you are obliged to be rude.
The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.
Uncommon expressions are a disfigurement rather than an embellishment of discourse.
What praise is implied in the simple epithet useful! What reproach in the contrary.
Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.
It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.
To study Buddhism is to study ourselves. To study ourselves is to forget ourselves.
In a mind clear as still water, even the waves, breaking, are reflecting its light.
We will always find fundamentally the compulsion to become what the soul should be.
All religions must be tolerated... for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.
The ability to get along without an exceptional leader is the mark of social vigor.
Mass movements do not usually rise until the prevailing order has been discredited.
That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers.
Liberalism can only be defined negatively. It is a mere critique, not a living idea
The human mind has claimed for water one of its highest values-the value of purity.
The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.
Existence is a miracle, and, morally considered, a free gift from moment to moment.
It is one thing to lack a heart and another to possess eyes and a just imagination.
Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end.
... my today's self perpetually slips out of any hold of it that I may try to take.
No benefit is more constant than simplicity; no happiness more constant than peace.
Man's chief moral deficiency appears to be not his indiscretions but his reticence.
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.
We are always making God our accomplice so that we may legalize our own inequities.
Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.