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Absolute monarchy,... is the easiest death, the true Euthanasia of the BRITISH constitution.
Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions.
The brave man is not only he who overcomes the enemy, but he who is stronger than pleasures.
If you want to see things just as they are, then you yourself must practice just as you are.
The color of the mountains is Buddha's body; the sound of running water is his great speech.
When you automate an industry you modernize it; when you automate a life you primitivize it.
In human affairs, the best stimulus for running ahead is to have something we must run from.
There's not much to be done about the impossibility. One must instead get rid of the desire.
One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
What history teaches us is that neither nations nor governments ever learn anything from it.
The fawning courtier and the surly squire often mean the same thing,--each his own interest.
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.
Nothing can be lower or more wholly instrumental than the substance and cause of all things.
I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
It is the tyranny of hidden prejudices that makes us deaf to what speaks to us in tradition.
Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.
But I wish to point out that it is entirely wrong to say that the Chinese are not religious.
It is so hard to make important decisions that we have a great urge to reduce them to rules.
It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life.
[R]eason is... given to us as a practical faculty, that is, as one that influences the will.
All natural capacities of a creature are destined to evolve completely to their natural end.
The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgment of reason, and perverts its liberty.
School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.
What kinds of things and people might learners want to be in contact with in order to learn?
We can neither change nor overpower God's eternal suffrage against selfishness and meanness.
A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
There is no human reason to be here, except for the sheer ecstasy of being crowded together.
Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
Women, in general, are not attracted to art at all, nor knowledge, and not at all to genius.
When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.
The question is not, 'Can they reason?' nor, 'Can they talk?' but rather, 'Can they suffer?'
As long as art is the beauty parlor of civilization, neither art nor civilization is secure.
Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
This is my destiny — I'm supposed to do this, dammit! Don't tell me what I can and can't do!
A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
Thus I assume that to each according to his threat advantage is not a conception of justice.
All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice.
Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded.
Since the working-class lives from hand to mouth,it buys as long as it has the means to buy.
The only way to test a hypothesis is to look for all the information that disagrees with it.
Who can wait quietly until the mud settles? Who can remain still until the moment of action?
Distortion upon distortion: . . . the more one uses the mind, the more confused one becomes.
The best of all teachers is the one who helps people so that eventually they don't need him.
Use justice to rule a country. Use surprise to wage war. Use non-action to govern the world.
Everything in the universe is created from something, which in turn is created from nothing.
All things carry yin and embrace yang. They reach harmony by blending with the vital breath.
An integral being knows without going, sees without looking, and accomplishes without doing.