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So the unwanting soul sees what's hidden, and the ever-wanting soul sees only what it wants.
Correct becomes defect. Good becomes ominous. People's delusions have certainly lasted long.
A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization.
Government means always coercion and compulsion and is by necessity the opposite of liberty.
Without speculation there can be no economic activity reaching beyond the immediate present.
Is my understanding only blindness to my own lack of understanding? It often seems so to me.
It is man's duty to love and to fear God, even without hope of reward or fear of punishment.
For to me every sort of peace with the citizens seemed to be of more service than civil war.
It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.
Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.
It is foolish to pluck out one's hair for sorrow, as if grief could be assuaged by baldness.
It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.
Even the ablest pilots are willing to receive advice from passengers in tempestuous weather.
Metaphor has traditionally been regarded as the matrix and pattern of the figures of speech.
Relativity theory forced the abandonment, in principle, of absolute space and absolute time.
One must be truly able to say I in order to know the mystery of the Thou in its whole truth.
Become aware of what is in you. Announce it, pronounce it, produce it, and give birth to it.
The regular path of virtue is to be pursued without any bend, and from no view to emolument.
It's ultimately the purpose of education to cultivate the love of learning for its own sake.
I suspect that most of the individuals who have religious faith are content with blind faith
Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.
In every artistic activity a new world is created, the cosmos, a world enlightened and free.
If you give up because you announce the phenomenon cannot be explained, you are missing out.
The Internet, like the steam engine, is a technological breakthrough that changed the world.
More primordial than any idea, beauty will be manifest as the herald and generator or ideas.
To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.
He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.
You need some knowledge to recognize knowledge, so where does the first knowledge come from?
The highest goal of music is to connect one's soul to their Divine Nature, not entertainment
If you're asked: What is the silence? Respond: It is the first stone of the Wisdom's temple.
Not meddling with Divinity, Metaphysicks, Moralls, Politicks, Grammar, Rhetorick, or Logick.
The greatest hindrance to living is expectancy, which depends upon tomorrow and wastes today
Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
There is nothing which persevering effort and unceasing and diligent care cannot accomplish.
Many person might have achieved wisdom had they not supposed that they already possessed it.
Let him who has granted a favour speak not of it; let him who has received one, proclaim it.
Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature.
Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.
Death falls heavily on that man who, known too well to others, dies in ignorance of himself.
It is a tedious thing to be always beginning life; they live badly who always begin to live.
In reality nothing is so beautiful as the good, nothing is so monotonous and boring as evil.
We do not obtain the most precious gifts by going in search of them but by waiting for them.
Those who love a cause are those who love the life which has to be led in order to serve it.
Whoever is uprooted himself uproots others. Whoever is rooted himself doesn't uproot others.
Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
To need nothing is divine, and the less a man needs the nearer does he approach to divinity.
Neither I nor any other man should, on trial or in way, contrive to avoid death at any cost.
Adversity not only draws people together, but brings forth that beautiful inward friendship.
What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
Sin is in itself separation from the good, but despair over sin is separation a second time.