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The deity on purpose [sings] the liveliest of all lyrics through the most miserable poet.
Philosophy makes progress not by becoming more rigorous but by becoming more imaginative.
Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.
Like every other viable environmental policy, the search for clean energy begins at home.
It is scarcely a mark of intellectual profundity to have noticed that our society is big.
For every step in spiritual perception, three steps are to be taken in moral development.
The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
A hungry people listens not to reason, not cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers.
You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
The real sin of idolatry is always committed on behalf of something similar to the State.
Get not your friends by bare compliments but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.
The bad one is that way because of the ignorance, therefore he can be healed with wisdom.
The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
Geniuses are like thunderstorms: they go against the wind, terrify people, clear the air.
Most people believe that the Christian commandments are intentionally a little too severe
I would rather be a swineherd, understood by the swine, than a poet misunderstood by men.
The great are strongest when they stand alone, A God-given might of being is their force.
You cannot transcend what you do not know. To go beyond yourself, you must know yourself.
We are the creators and creatures of each other, causing and bearing each other's burden.
Knowledge gives power. In practice it is very simple. To control yourself, know yourself.
Each stage of cosmic development proceeded more quickly than the stage which preceded it.
The Gaian process is more than a process. It is s self-reflecting entelechy of some sort.
The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive.
To the mean eye all things are trivial, as certainly as to the jaundiced they are yellow.
Little other than a red tape Talking-machine, and unhappy Bag of Parliamentary Eloquence.
The steam-engine I call fire-demon and great; but it is nothing to the invention of fire.
Perhaps the belief in God is the belief that the universe is intelligible, but not to us.
In order to be effective truth must penetrate like an arrow - and that is likely to hurt.
Samskrit is the unsurpassed zenith in the whole development of languages yet known to us.
Where men cannot freely convey their thoughts to one another, no other liberty is secure.
Every way of classifying a thing is but a way of handling it for some particular purpose.
The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.
Skepticism is not a denial of belief, but rather a denial of rational grounds for belief.
Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens.
Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
What was it like to wake up after having never gone to sleep? That was when you were born.
We identify in our experience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.
We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Worthless persons appointed to have supreme control of weighty affairs do a lot of damage.
We are better able to study our neighbours than ourselves, and their actions than our own.
Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries them. A true friend is one soul in two bodies
There is only one inborn error. and that is the notion that we exist in order to be happy.
The heavy armor becomes the light dress of childhood; the pain is brief, the joy unending.
Hatred is increased by being reciprocated, and can on the other hand be destroyed by love.
Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.