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Those who still eat flesh when they could do otherwise have no claim to be serious moralists.
Every artistic form reflects the dynamism that is constantly building up the life of feeling.
History is fractal. The closer you look, the more complicated, yet always repeating patterns.
It is not easy to measure the ocean, but we can be measured by it, confront it, and be in it.
That's what a god is. Somebody who knows more than you do about whatever you're dealing with.
Shamanism is just show business and philosophy is just a branch of that vaudevillian impulse.
Flying saucers are nothing more than miracles, and they occur essentially to bedevil science.
That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy.
One life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us for evermore!
The leafy blossoming present time springs from the whole past, remembered and unrememberable.
Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.
The essence of humor is sensibility; warm, tender fellow-feeling with all forms of existence.
He that works and does some Poem, not he that merely says one, is worthy of the name of Poet.
No matter how good or great a man may be, there is yet a better and a greater man within him.
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
If true love came at a price, the price would be all worth while if i was spending it on you.
I am an Orangeman first and a politician and member of this parliament [Stormont] afterwards.
There is one God - supreme among gods and men - who is like mortals in neither body nor mind.
Let everything be allowed to do what it naturally does, so that its nature will be satisfied.
The wise say that our failure is to form habits: for habit is the mark of a stereotyped world.
It is not on the ruin of liberty that we may (in the future... - "pourra", Fr.) build justice.
But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.
... preliminary accounting, banking and surveying (known as arithmetic, algebra and geometry).
It is only by participation in a rational, practice-based community that one becomes rational.
It is not abstinence from pleasures that is best, but mastery over them without being worsted.
Also, that which is desirable in itself is more desirable than what is desirable per accidens.
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.
The life of children, as much as that of intemperate men, is wholly governed by their desires.
For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
It is not easy to determine the nature of music, or why any one should have a knowledge of it.
Whether we call it sacrifice, or poetry, or adventure, it is always the same voice that calls.
Dissimulation is innate in woman, and almost as much a quality of the stupid as of the clever.
If slavery, barbarism and desolation are to be called peace, men can have no worse misfortune.
Things which are accidentally the causes either of hope or fear are called good or evil omens.
I dislike Communism because it is undemocratic, and capitalism because it favors exploitation.
When we look at a rock what we are seeing is not the rock, but the effect of the rock upon us.
The average man's opinions are much less foolish than they would be if he thought for himself.
Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?
What is new in our time is the increased power of the authorities to enforce their prejudices.
Neither acquiescence in skepticism nor acquiescence in dogma is what education should produce.
The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat.
The condition of truth is to allow suffering to speak - that gives it an existential emphasis.
Some people don't want to be morally consistent. They just want to be tied to their one issue.
Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God's kingdom and God's cleverness