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There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.
Philosophy, the love of Wisdom, is at the very bottom defence against the incomprehensible.
Spirit is the presence of what concerns us ultimately, the ground of our being and meaning.
The passion for truth is silenced by answers which have the weight of undisputed authority.
We are, quite literally, gambling with the future of our planet- for the sake of hamburgers
I do not believe that it could never be justifiable to experiment on a brain-damaged human.
I don't think there's anything in the compromise that means that there's a clash of ethics.
All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.
Most people affirm pleasure to be the good, but the finer sort of wits say it is knowledge.
The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.
When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.
The goal is the developed Kingdom of god, the New Jerusalem, a world order under god's law.
And if strangers come to supper they shall be served with more according as they have need.
Instead of trying to prove your opponent wrong, try to see in what sense he might be right.
The children of each generation are taught to want what they are taught they must not have.
In 1970s Britain, conservative philosophy was the preoccupation of a few half-mad recluses.
Thus every writer's motto reads: mad I cannot be, sane I do not deign to be, neurotic I am.
We write a subscript to our mortality. We make our lives tiny diamonds in the cosmic sands.
No problem is more crucial for a naturalistic view of the world than the mind-body problem.
Live through deeds of love, and let others live with tolerance for their unique intentions.
The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.
Any necessary truth, whether a priori or a posteriori, could not have turned out otherwise.
A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
Whereas a prolonged life is not necessarily better, a prolonged death is necessarily worse.
It is the practice of the multitude to bark at eminent men, as little dogs do at strangers.
Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
The velocity with which time flies is infinite, as is most apparent to those who look back.
Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
To explain why a man slipped on a banana peel, we do not need a general theory of slipping.
We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.
Death. An instantaneous state, without past or future. Indispensable for entering eternity.
One must always be ready to change sides with justice, that fugitive from the winning camp.
It is better to be at odds with the whole world than, being one, to be at odds with myself.
The reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.
This sense of wonder is the mark of the philosopher. Philosophy indeed has no other origin.
They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed.
Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
It is not the path which is the difficulty; rather, it is the difficulty which is the path.
In peace and silence, the skin of the 'I' dissolves and the inner and the outer become one.
The silence before the words were spoken, is it different from the silence that came after?
I think really what unites psychedelic people is the faith in the power of the imagination.
Psychedelic experiences and dreams are chemical cousins; they are only different in degree.
People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.
If the world is made of language, then you can hack it in the sense that you can hack code.
Closure is a neurotic and infantile demand to make upon reality, other people, or language.
Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.
Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.
It is in general more profitable to reckon up our defeats than to boast of our attainments.