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Without sounding too cliché, the Internet really is the birth of some kind of global mind.
Art's task is to save the soul of mankind.. anything less is a dithering while Rome burns.
That's the core puzzling experience, when you meet the Other organized as a speaking mind.
Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don't happen at all.
Democracy will prevail when men believe the vote of Judas as good as that of Jesus Christ.
I know so little about any history. How little do I know even about the history of myself.
The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.
A force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was ever done in the world.
We have not read an author till we have seen his object, whatever it may be, as he saw it.
To live in the moment and in the future at the same time would seem to me to be the trick.
The Saint is a man who disciplines his ego. The Sage is a man who rids himself of his ego.
Real inward devotion knows no prayer but that arising from the depths of its own feelings.
Give your dreams all you've got, and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
Science as such assuredly has no authority, for she can only say what is, not what is not.
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
In order to disprove the assertion that all crows are black, one white crow is sufficient.
It is only the fundamental conceptions of psychology which are of real value to a teacher.
Human nature refers to what is in people but which they cannot study or work at achieving.
To go outside what your charge was, and to try to solve everything yourself, is dangerous.
Our body is a small universe; to regulate emotions and feelings is a way of harmonization.
I am putting together a secular bible. My Genesis is when the apple falls on Newton's head.
When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.
A less 'brainy-culture' would learn to synchronise its body rhythms rather than its clocks.
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
Injustice results as much from treating unequals equally as from treating equals unequally.
The family is the association established by nature for the supply of men's everyday wants.
That which is impossible and probable is better than that which is possible and improbable.
To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence.
Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency.
In their hearts women think that it is men's business to earn money and theirs to spend it.
Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.
I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
No matter what your logic is, if it is coherent, you can develop a technique to express it.
I often long to . . . give up my life to love of my neighbour. This is really a temptation.
Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more than ruin, more even than death.
What vanity needs for its satisfaction is glory, and it's easy to have glory without power.
Science is no substitute for virtue; the heart is as necessary for a good life as the head.
To create a healthy philosophy you should renounce metaphysics but be a good mathematician.
Panentheistic doctrine contains all of deism and pandeism except their arbitrary negations.
No nation has reason to regard itself superior to others by virtue of its innate endowment.
Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.
Be loyal and trustworthy. Do not befriend anyone who is lower than yourself in this regard.
Don't worry if people don't recognize your merits; worry that you may not recognize theirs.
Study as though you cannot catch up to it, and as though you fear you are going to lose it.
The highest kind of man is the one who does before talking and practices what he professes.
For benefits return benefits; for injuries return justice without any admixture of revenge.
The habit of shedding blood, or even of seeing it shed, corrupts all sentiment of humanity.
We have to be militants for kindness, subversive for sweetness and radicals for tenderness.
Disciples are those who have been so ravished with Christ that others want to be like them.