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The high-minded man is fond of conferring benefits, but it shames him to receive them.
Not to get what you have set your heart on is almost as bad as getting nothing at all.
The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.
Thinking you know when in fact you don't is a fatal mistake, to which we are all prone
Televison allows thousands of people to laugh at the same joke and still remain alone.
To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name.
HELL: A place where the police are German, the motorists French and the cooks English.
What Galileo and Newton were to the seventeenth century, Darwin was to the nineteenth.
Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
The taboo against nakedness is an obstacle to a decent attitude on the subject of sex.
The Lord wants double edged artistry, praising God's name and setting things straight.
Crimes are more effectually prevented by the certainty than the severity of punishment
The definition of definition is at bottom just what the maxim of pragmatism expresses.
Those who cannot forgive others break the bridge over which they themselves must pass.
A disciple having asked for a definition of charity, the Master said LOVE ONE ANOTHER.
The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.
Some may study side by side, and yet be asunder when they come to the logic of things.
Only after Winter comes do we know that the pine and the cypress are the last to fade.
A ruthless man extends his ruthlessness from those he does not love to those he loves.
Past scholars studied to improve themselves; Today's scholars study to impress others.
Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
Most people in the West who say they believe in God actually believe in belief in God.
Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients: action, pleasure and indolence.
Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.
That the sun shines tomorrow is a judgement that is as true as the contrary judgement.
The only way to gall and fret effectively is for yourself to be a good and honest man.
If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?
We are all more or less ill till we find -Self-enquiry our Oneness with everyone else.
I have always struggled, with the sole intention of ceasing to struggle. Result: zero.
Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.
If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.
Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.
Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.
The prayer of the agnostic: "O God, if there is a God, save my soul if I have a soul."
Every science is a profane restatement of the preceding dogmas of the religious period
Pessimism only describes an attitude, and not facts, and hence is entirely subjective.
The Few assume to be the deputies, but they are often only the despoilers of the Many.
Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape.
What is more important in life than our bodies or in the world than what we look like?
belief is necessarily something false that diverts and suffocates effective production
Conscience is the anticipation of the fellow who awaits you if and when you come home.
Kindness is gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us.
An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.
When men dream, each has his own world. When they are awake, they have a common world.
Where there is no strife there is decay: 'The mixture which is not shaken decomposes.'
Preaching nonviolence on principle reproduces the existing institutionalized violence.
Although some secrecy is odious, some is essential just to preserve our sense of self.