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The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.
Through ignorance of what is good and what is bad, the life of men is greatly perplexed.
We cannot employ the mind to advantage when we are filled with excessive food and drink.
He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself.
To the sick, while there is life there is hope. [Lat., Aegroto dum anima est, spes est.]
Environments are not just containers, but are processes that change the content totally.
It is critical vision alone which can mitigate the unimpeded operation of the automatic.
Technologies themselves, regardless of content, produce a hemispheric bias in the users.
The space of early Greek cosmology was structured by logos - resonant utterance or word.
Media are means of extending and enlarging our organic sense lives into our environment.
In an age of multiple and massive innovations, obsolescence becomes the major obsession.
I don't like religion much, and I am glad that in the Bible the word is not to be found.
God made so many different kinds of people; why would God allow only one way to worship?
Freedom and destiny are solemnly promised to one another and linked together in meaning.
Goddess is the deep Source of creating integrity and the Self-affirming be-ing of women.
Only when someone refuses to do certain things will he be capable of doing great things.
A single ear of corn in a large field is as strange as a single world in infinite space.
To try to do something which is inherently impossible is always a corrupting enterprise.
Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship.
The secret must be kept from all non-people. The mystery must be hidden from all idiots.
Through money, democracy becomes its own destroyer, after money has destroyed intellect.
But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny.
The separation of faith and love is always a consequence of a deterioration of religion.
Art is thus materialized dream, separated from the ordinary consciousness of waking life
We should give the same respect to the lives of animals as we do to the lives of humans.
In matters of religion, it is very easy to deceive a man and very hard to undeceive him.
Science, philosophy and religion are bound to converge as they draw nearer to the whole.
When man is not properly trained, he is the most savage animal on the face of the globe.
Would that I were the heaven, that I might be all full of love-lit eyes to gaze on thee.
And if we are good, we are beneficent: for all good things are beneficial. Are they not?
The history of any nation is not only a succession of events, but also a chain of ideas.
You should help a man to take up a burden, but you should not help him put it back down.
True zeal is an ignis lambeus, a soft and gentle flame, that will not scorch one's hand.
Foreknowledge of the future makes it possible to manipulate both enemies and supporters.
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
The chief cause of human errors is to be found in the prejudices picked up in childhood.
If the body had been easier to understand, nobody would have thought that we had a mind.
Marxian exploitation is the exploitation of people's lack of understanding of economics.
Art has the ability to redeem life by finding beauty even in the worst aspect of things.
Coming close to death you begin to know what life means, and what it means is gratitude.
As Spectator I wanted to explore photography not as a question (a theme) but as a wound.
Receive the children in reverence, educate them in love, and send them forth in freedom.
You will not be good teachers if you focus only on what you do and not upon who you are.
Nothing is better for the human being than to add the right amount of honey to his food.
We find the instrument for the Knowledge of God in ourselves But we find God everywhere.
Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.
More inhumanity (to man) has been done by man himself than any other of nature's causes.
Most people fancy themselves innocent of those crimes of which they cannot be convicted.
To strive with an equal is dangerous; with a superior, mad; with an inferior, degrading.
Many shed tears merely for show, and have dry eyes when no one's around to observe them.