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There is a widespread sense of loss here, if not always of God, then at least of meaning.
Expect much from yourself and little from others and you will avoid incurring resentments
To be truly happy and contented, you must let go of what it means to be happy or content.
A man may not transgress the bounds of major morals, but may make errors in minor morals.
Not feeling compassion for a stranger is like not feeling when one's foot has caught fire
When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.
There is a price to pay for speaking the truth. There is a bigger price for living a lie.
If the Kingdom of God is in you, you should leave a little bit of heaven wherever you go.
Being a Christian is not a political orientation for the president, but he is a centrist.
Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
There’s simply no polite way to tell people they’ve dedicated their lives to an illusion.
The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them-especially not from yourself.
Atheism, a term which will, I'm sure, eventually become as unnecessary as round-earthism.
Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.
What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.
Luxury is a word of uncertain signification, and may be taken in a good as in a bad sense
We come into the world alone and we die alone. Why, in life, should we be any less alone?
Other dogs bite only their enemies, whereas I bite also my friends in order to save them.
If your cloak was a gift, I appreciate it; if it was a loan, I'm not through with it yet.
Diogenes lighted a candle in the daytime, and went round saying, "I am looking for a man.
When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.
Clearly I know, the mind is mountains, rivers, and the great earth; sun, moon, and stars.
Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.
It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.
True loyalty between individuals is possible only in a loose and relatively free society.
Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others.
We can remember minutely and precisely only the things which never really happened to us.
A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.
We should have to abandon our vested illusions, our irrational religions and patriotisms.
Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavour to understand him.
For why should we not admire more the angels themselves and the blessed choirs of heaven?
Give thanks to God, who made necessary things simple, and complicated things unnecessary.
Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.
Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison.
Nothing is more characteristic of a man than the manner in which he behaves toward fools.
With a higher moral nature will come a restriction on the multiplication of the inferior.
In such diffused changes of culture two factors are necessary: contact and understanding.
Among the lesser effects of quantum theory are gaping holes in old ideas about causality.
A man will never fear something besides Allah unless it be due to a disease in his heart.
The individual who is the servant of technique must be completely unconscious of himself.
Prayer holds together the shattered fragments of the creation. It makes history possible.
The equality of rights of all citizens is the basic tenet of modern democratic societies.
To live with Jesus is to live with the poor. To live with the poor is to live with Jesus.
One should commit no stupidity twice, the variety of choice is, in the end, large enough.
Thus it amounts to the same thing whether one gets drunk alone or is a leader of nations.
I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.
Once liberty has exploded in the soul of a man, the gods can do nothing against that man.
Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.
Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.