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The deepest depth of vulgarism is that of setting up money as the ark of the covenant.
Roguery is thought by some to be cunning and laughable: it is neither; it is devilish.
Of a truth, men are mystically united: a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one.
The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope.
And as in other things, so in men, not the seller, but the buyer determines the Price.
Ambition, and Covetousnesse are Passions that are perpetually incumbent, and pressing.
Love is a person's idea about his/her needs in other person what you are attracted to.
I have been accused of denying consciousness but I am not conscious of having done so.
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
The good or bad is not in the circumstance, but only in the mind...that encounters it.
The first thing that intellect does with an object is to class it with something else.
Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
Those whose character is mean and vicious will rouse others to animosity against them.
Public behavior is nurtured in private; earthshaking measures come form careful steps.
Humanism is the philosophy that you should be a good guest at the dinner table of life.
Mathematics is not yet capable of coping with the naïveté of the mathematician himself.
On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.
The treasure I have found cannot be described in words, the mind cannot conceive of it.
You are the big bang, the original force of the universe, coming on as whoever you are.
You must not be afraid of playing wrong notes. Just forget it, play it wrong! But play!
If we are unduly absorbed in improving our lives we may forget altogether to live them.
Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.
No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
The weak are always anxious for justice and equality. The strong pay no heed to either.
Moral qualities are so constituted as to be destroyed by excess and by deficiency . . .
And, speaking generally, passion seems not to be amenable to reason, but only to force.
Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.
In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
Choice is a determinant in personal development ... by my free acts I am making myself.
No symphony orchestra ever played music like a two-year-old girl laughing with a puppy.
Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.
If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy.
One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.
A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.
Human life, its growth, its hopes, fears, loves, et cetera, are the result of accidents
I think my great book is Born to Sing: An Interpretation and World Survey of Bird Song.
The entire universe is perfused with signs, if it is not composed exclusively of signs.
The soul is joined to and is separated from the body. Therefore, the soul is corporeal.
The wise are free from perplexities; the virtuous from anxiety; and the bold from fear.
The virtuous man is driven by responsibility, the non-virtuous man is driven by profit.
A man should practice what he preaches, but a man should also preach what he practices.
It cannot be when the root is neglected that what springs from it will be well ordered.
Learn as if you were not reaching your goal and as though you were scared of missing it
Sincerity is the end and beginning of things; without sincerity there would be nothing.
I have yet to meet a man as fond of high moral conduct as he is of outward appearances.
The path may not be left for an instant. If it could be left, it would not be the path.
Even if people do not know what real kindness is, they nonetheless have it within them.