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And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.
Facts, like telescopes and wigs for gentlemen, were a seventeenth century invention.
It is now no mystery that some quite influential 'philosophers' were 'mentally' ill.
The man incapable of contemplation cannot be an artist, but only a skillful workman.
The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.
Only an armed people can be truly free. Only an unarmed people can ever be enslaved.
Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances.
Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.
All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings; there’s too much corruption in the world
It may be argued that peoples for whom philosophers legislate are always prosperous.
Selfishness doesn't consist in a love to yourself, but in a big degree of such love.
This much then, is clear: in all our conduct it is the mean that is to be commended.
To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men.
While the faculty of sensation is dependent upon the body, mind is separable from it
Materialism is the philosophy of the subject who forgets to take account of himself.
It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.
The order and connection of ideas is the same as the order and connection of things.
A man without a bias cannot write interesting history - if indeed such a man exists.
My first advice (on how not to grow old) would be to choose you ancestors carefully.
Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.
The road to Hades is easy to travel; at any rate men pass away with their eyes shut.
He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy.
Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.
Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.
Be aroused by poetry; structure yourself with propriety, refine yourself with music.
Character is the backbone of our human culture. Music is the flowering of character.
The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress.
When music and courtesy are better understood and appreciated, there will be no war.
There are three unfilial acts: the greatest of these is the failure to produce sons.
Waste begets self-will; thrift begets meanness: but better be mean than self-willed.
In your promises cleave to what is right, And you will be able to fulfill your word.
Humankind differs from the animals only by a little and most people throw that away.
He who acts with a constant view to his own advantage will be much murmured against.
I'm not romanticizing black people, because we've got gangsters like everybody else.
The children of today are the builders of a brave, new world - a world without want.
Find a person who has embraced anger, and you will find a person with a wounded ego.
The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
The only answer to the endless chains of why, why, why is that the alternatives died
Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
To speak but little becomes a woman; and she is best adorned who is in plain attire.
The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.
Disease of the home and of the life comes about in the same way as that of the body.
The continuous capacity of genius to surpass understanding remains a human constant.
We might neglect our future selves because of some failure of belief or imagination.
If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate.
We are more curious about the meaning of dreams than about things we see when awake.
Just as parents care for their children, you should bear in mind the whole universe.
When other sects speak well of Zen, the first thing that they praise is its poverty.
There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.
EVERY intense desire is perhaps basically a desire to be different from what we are.