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The men of the future will yet fight their way to many a liberty that we do not even miss.
And suddenly you know: It's time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings.
You need seek God neither below or above.He is no farther away than the door of the heart.
You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.
All that God asks you most pressingly is to go out of yourself … and let God be God in you
Marriage, the family unit, was the "original Department of Health, Education and Welfare."
In poetry, even discourse about doubts must be cast in a discourse that cannot be doubted.
Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.
One cannot learn how to be creative by reading Marx. Either one is creative or one is not.
In those rare individual cases where women approach genius they also approach masculinity.
The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education.
Arguments hardly affect the faithful- their beliefs have an entirely different foundation.
So long as the New Testament served to decipher the Old, it was taken as an absolute norm.
Culture (science) is the form of religion; Religion is the substance of culture (science).
In the courageous standing of uncertainty, faith shows most visibly its dynamic character.
He who receives a benefit should never forget it; he who bestows should never remember it.
The beginning is the most important part...for that is the time character is being formed.
A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something.
States will never be happy until rulers become philosophers or philosophers become rulers.
Let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue.
And what do you say of lovers of wine... they are glad of any pretext of drinking any wine
Until philosophers hold power, neither states nor individuals will have rest from trouble.
Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
Love that shines from within cannot be darkened by obstacles of the world of consequences!
Practice restraint over the following: appetite, first, as well as sleep, lust, and anger.
Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.
All science requires mathematics. [Editors' summary of Bacon's idea, not Bacon's wording.]
The working classes in every country only learn to fight in the course of their struggles.
The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing-to live in accord with his own nature.
What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.
We are all sinful. Therefore whatever we blame in another we shall find in our own bosoms.
The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom - that deed and word should be in accord.
Let the man, who would be grateful, think of repaying a kindness, even while receiving it.
To give and to lose is nothing; but to lose and to give still is the part of a great mind.
A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
The world is the closed door. It is a barrier. And at the same time it is the way through.
When I really love someone, I can only show it by making aggressive and bad-taste remarks.
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent
The wise man seeks death all his life, and for this reason death is not terrifying to him.
Do not go through life like leaf blown from here to there believing whatever you are told.
I'm so misunderstood that people misunderstand me even when I tell them I'm misunderstood.
Truth is not introduced into the individual from without, but was within him all the time.
There are men who are wanting in the comparative, they as a rule are the most interesting.
The Divine Truth is greater than any religion or creed or scripture or idea or philosophy.
The only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives.
Do what you believe in and believe in what you do. The rest is a waste of time and energy.
We are going through the eye of the needle; make sure you leave what you don't need behind
The shaman is not merely a sick man, or a madman; he is a sick man who has healed himself.