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The object of music is a Sound. The end; to delight, and move various Affections in us.
A distribution is just if it arises from another just distribution by legitimate means.
The most revolutionary thing one can do is always to proclaim loudly what is happening.
For every human illness, somewhere in the world there exists a plant which is the cure.
Intuition is the conscious experience - in pure spirit - of a purely spiritual content.
Even as the cell is the unit of the organic body, so the family is the unit of society.
There's one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
Life's like a play; it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.
To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.
On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
A man who has taken your time recognises no debt; yet it is the one he can never repay.
I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge of the man.
To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
Trust not a woman when she weeps, for it is her nature to weep when she wants her will.
Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.
Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires.
All the shrewdness of 'man' seeks one thing: to be able to live without responsibility.
Job endured everything - until his friends came to comfort him, then he grew impatient.
To expound and propogate concepts is simple, to drop all concepts is difficult and rare
The function of art is to acquaint the beholder with something he has not known before.
We can will the perfect future into being by becoming microcosms of the perfect future.
Chaos is roving through the system and able to undo, at any point, the best laid plans.
To me, the psychedelic experience is the experience of trying to make sense of reality.
If reality is code, then it can be hacked in some way that we had not suspected before.
If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
Thought, true labor of any kind, highest virtue itself, is it not the daughter of Pain?
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
Man's earthly interests,'are all hooked and buttoned together, and held up, by Clothes.
Leisure is the mother of philosophy; and commonwealth, the mother of peace and leisure.
When a man tells me God hath spoken in a dream, I know he dreamt that God spoke to him.
The deepest difference between religions is not that between polytheism and monotheism.
Life, in all ranks and situations, is an outward occupation, an actual and active work.
Life is what the least of us make the most of us feel the least of us make the most of.
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
... I am the same personal being who in old times upon the Earth had those experiences.
For we can only know that we know nothing, and a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
Increasingly, we're developing all kinds of systems for verifying reality by echoing it.
It is a true man's part not to err, but it is also noble of a man to perceive his error.
It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit
Art is identical with a state of capacity to make, involving a true course of reasoning.
The specific excellence of verbal expression in poetry is to be clear without being low.
Most men are so thoroughly subjective that nothing really interests them but themselves.
Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things.
None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
There is an artist imprisoned in each one of us. Let him loose to spread joy everywhere.