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There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
I am I plus my surroundings; and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.
Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort.
The ultimate meaning of the active life is to make possible the happiness of contemplation.
We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in color and fire.
God is One, all our lives have various and unique places in the harmony of the divine life.
There is a physical relation between physical things. But it is different with commodities.
Contrary to the outstanding work of art, outstanding theory is susceptible to improvements.
The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
Too much success is not an advantage. Do not tinkle like jade Or clatter like stone chimes.
Ancient masters of excellence had a subtle essence, and a depth too profound to comprehend.
Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.
All streams flow to the sea because it is lower than they are. Humility gives it its power.
We should be worried about online silos. They make us stupid and hostile toward each other.
I would rather be a devil in alliance with truth, than an angel in alliance with falsehood.
During the 2300 years since Plato, very little opposition has been registered to his ideas.
When you are philosophizing you have to descend into primeval chaos and feel at home there.
To believe in a God means to see that the facts of the world are not the end of the matter.
Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing.
With my full philosophical rucksack I can only climb slowly up the mountain of mathematics.
A color which would be 'dirty' if it were the color of a wall, needn't be so in a painting.
You must therefore love me, myself, and not my circumstances, if we are to be real friends.
It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
The memory of past troubles is pleasant. [Lat., Jucunda memoria est praeteritorum malorum.]
Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority.
It is not the place that maketh the person, but the person that maketh the place honorable.
A war is never undertaken by the ideal state, except in defense of its honor or its safety.
To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.
The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man.
The leaders should all relate to this principle: the governed must be as happy as possible.
For he, indeed, who looks into the face of a friend beholds, as it were, a copy of himself.
Apollo, sacred guard of earth's true core, Whence first came frenzied, wild prophetic word.
The specialist is one who never makes small mistakes while moving toward the grand fallacy.
I do not say whether it is a good or bad thing. To do so would be meaningless and arrogant.
Typographic man can express but is helpless to read the configurations of print technology.
When a man has made peace within himself, he will be able to make peace in the whole world.
We should also pray for the wicked among the peoples of the world; we should love them too.
This is the sacrifice: the endless possibility that is offered up on the altar of the form.
Only where leader and led together bind each other in one destiny ... does true order grow.
It is a great good fortune, as Stendhal said, for one "to have his passion as a profession.
For the person who has learned to let go and let be, nothing can ever get in the way again.
Jesus might have said, I became man for you. If you do not become God for me, you wrong me.
What good is it that Christ was born [2,000] years ago if he is not born now in your heart?
He is conscious only of God...To be conscious of knowing God is to know about God and self.
There is a power in everything; it is the job of the artist to determine it and express it.
The eternity of the spirit does not begin after death ... but is, like God, always present.
When the thinking of a people becomes corrupt, the pure silver becomes impure in its hands.
The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.
The bourgeois takes economic power very seriously, and often worships it quite unselfishly.