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For human beings, love is the most important fruit of experience in the sense world.
A man who suffers or stresses before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary
To want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people primitiveness and squalor.
Do the best you can . . . enjoy the present . . . rest satisfied with what you have.
However wretched a fellow-mortal may be, he is still a member of our common species.
Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
Tolerance always has limits - it cannot tolerate what is itself actively intolerant.
Only an indirect method is effective. We do nothing if we have not first drawn back.
We should do only those righteous actions which we cannot stop ourselves from doing.
Deceit and violence - these are the two forms of deliberate assault on human beings.
To them, I said, the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images.
For without risk there is no faith, and the greater the risk, the greater the faith.
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
This world is a vast unbroken totality, a deep solidarity joins its contrary powers.
To doubt the experience is to discourage it. Let it be developed, see what is in it.
Transform reason into ordered intuition; let all thyself be light. This is thy goal.
A quiet mind is all you need. All else will happen rightly, once your mind is quiet.
common sense is a very tricky instrument; it is as deceptive as it is indispensable.
It is slowly becoming understood that the modality of being is the modality of mind.
Our task is to create memes... Launch your meme boldly and see if it will replicate.
Experientially there is only one religion, and it is shamanism and shamanic ecstasy.
[One] who is healthy in body, resourceful in soul and of a readily teachable nature.
Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.
No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.
Lord Bacon could as easily have created the planets as he could have written Hamlet.
To be true is manly, chivalrous, Christian; to be false is mean, cowardly, devilish.
Geometry is the only science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow on mankind.
You cannot be a rational subject without veto-control on the level of mental action.
It is not an act of kindness to treat animals respectfully. It is an act of justice.
Perhaps immortality is a gift of heaven rather than the result of some human effort.
An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.
An experience, perceptual or conceptual, must conform to reality in order to be true
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
I take it that no man is educated who has never dallied with the thought of suicide.
All the fish needs is to get lost in the water. All man needs is to get lost in Tao.
Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy
Desires that are just are termed Truth. Without desires, Truth cannot be understood.
I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.
When you look out of your eyes at nature happening out there...You're looking at you.
The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple.
You are something that the whole world is doing just as when the sea has waves on it.
A living body is not a fixed thing, but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool.
A holy person is someone who is whole; who has, as it were, reconciled his opposites.
Sex is no longer a serious taboo. Teenagers sometimes know more about it than adults.
There is no formula for generating the authentic warmth of love. It cannot be copied.
We are waiting not for a Godot but for another-doubtless very different-St. Benedict.
Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away.