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Ulysses was not comely, but he was eloquent, Yet he fired two goddesses of the sea with love
The relinquishing of the lesser is the gaining of the greater. Give up all and you gain all.
When all the false self-identifications are thrown away, what remains is all-embracing love.
What is artistically good is whatever articulates and presents feeling to our understanding.
value exists only where there is consciousness. Where nothing ever is felt, nothing matters.
The Web is trivially simple - massively successful and its like Karaoke - anybody can do it.
To date, the enterprise of thinking has moved us radically away from understanding anything.
We live not, in reality, on the summit of a solid earth but at the bottom of an ocean of air
It is well said, in every sense, that a man's religion is the chief fact with regard to him.
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
No mortal has a right to wag his tongue, much less to wag his pen, without saying something.
Lives the man that can figure a naked Duke of Windlestraw addressing a naked House of Lords?
Men looke not at the greatnesse of the evill past, but the greatnesse of the good to follow.
There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality.
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door.
In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.
Simpler explanations are, other things being equal, generally better than more complex ones.
If knowledge and foresight are too penetrating and deep, unify them with ease and sincerity.
Never admire a man by his strength; judge him in how he uses it- A way is made by walking it
Heaven does without doing through its purity, Earth does without doing through its calmness.
To remain caught up in ideas and words about Zen is, as the old masters say, to stink of Zen.
I have suggested that behind almost all myth lies the mono-plot of the game of hide-and-seek.
I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.
There is a sad forgetfulness of Christian modesty, especially in the life and dress of women.
An education, other than purely professional or technical, can even seem to be an impediment.
All friendly feelings toward others come from the friendly feelings a person has for himself.
Youth should stay away from all evil, especially things that produce wickedness and ill-will.
The only way to achieve true success is to express yourself completely in service to society.
Thinking is different from perceiving and is held to be in part imagination, in part judgment
Why is it that all men who are outstanding in philosophy, poetry or the arts are melancholic?
Temperance and bravery, then, are ruined by excess and deficiency, but preserved by the mean.
Pleasure causes us to do base actions and pain causes us to abstain from doing noble actions.
The same ideas, one must believe, recur in men's minds not once or twice but again and again.
The Universe is a dream dreamed by a single dreamer where all the dream characters dream too.
A good supply of resignation is of the first importance in providing for the journey of life.
The common man is not concerned about the passage of time, the man of talent is driven by it.
...in the end every one stands alone, and the important thing is who it is that stands alone.
Pride is generally censured and decried, but mainly by those who have nothing to be proud of.
On the path of actions, great heart is the chief recommendation; on that works, a great head.
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
Extreme hopes are born of extreme misery, and in such a world hopes could only be irrational.
Herd pressure is to be judged by two things: first, its intensity, and second, its direction.
What has human happiness to do with morals? The object of morals is not to make people happy.
Happiness, as is evident, depends partly upon external circumstances and partly upon oneself.
Ideas and principles that do harm are as a rule, though not always, cloaks for evil passions.
We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them.
Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers, which are always repulsed by the anvil.
An orchid in a deep forest sends out its fragrance even if no one is around to appreciate it.
You judge yourself by what you think you can achieve, others judge you by what have achieved.