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The sage does not act and therefore does not fail, does not seize and therefore does not lose.
Only he who does not seek to be ahead of others is capable of living in harmony with everyone.
When the palace is magnificent, the fields are filled with weeds, and the granaries are empty.
To the good I would be good; to the not-good I would also be good, in order to make them good.
The more you learn, if you learn it properly, the more clear you become and the more you know.
We learn history not in order to know how to behave or how to succeed, but to know who we are.
There is no other planning for freedom and general welfare than to let the market system work.
Kierkegaard was by far the most profound thinker of the last century. Kierkegaard was a saint.
Because our goals are not lofty but illusory, our problems are not difficult, but nonsensical.
A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.
He who does not understand that a dead lion is more alive than a living dog will remain a dog.
Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
It was fear that was then making you a good citizen, which is never a lasting teacher of duty.
For one day spent well, and agreeably to your precepts, is preferable to an eternity of error.
The spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which can be pointed out by your finger.
Nothing is so great an adversary to those who make it their business to please as expectation.
Whereas science elicits changes in order to know, technology knows in order to elicit changes.
Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
Man works when he is partially involved. When he is totally involved he is at play or leisure.
We have to find the environments in which it will be possible to live with our new inventions.
'God's plan' is often a front for men's plans and a cover for inadequacy, ignorance, and evil.
When I experience Love I must go to God. When I experience non-attachment God must come to me.
God is bound to act, to pour himself out (into thee) as soon as ever he shall find thee ready.
If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself.
Listen to a man's words and look at the pupil of his eye. How can a man conceal his character?
A man must not be without shame, for the shame of being without shame is shamelessness indeed.
Events of resistance have the power not only to escape control but also to create a new world.
Unreason is in the same relation to reason as dazzlement to the brightness of daylight itself.
If a philosophic theory is once ruled out of court, no one can tell when it will appear again.
It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.
Drink! for you know not when you came, nor why; Drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.
Peace is a desire, war is a fact; and history has never paid heed to human desires and ideals.
If the Resurrection is resurrection from the dead, all hope and freedom are in spite of death.
What must be the nature of the world... if human beings are able to introduce changes into it?
Sometimes I think it is my mission to bring faith to the faithless, and doubt to the faithful.
It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.
In the world of knowledge, the idea of good appears last of all, and is seen only with effort.
Romantic Art: The Hearts Awakening - Bouguereau At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.
Poverty doesn't come because of the decrease of wealth but because of the increase of desires.
The three wishes of every man: to be healthy, to be rich by honest means, and to be beautiful.
It is not noble to return evil for evil, at no time ought we to do an injury to our neighbors.
Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be, but go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea.
He, O men, is the wisest, who, like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing.
There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.
Dear youths, I warn you cherish peace divine, And in your hearts lay deep these words of mine.
At 12, I knew that the point of being human was to spend one's life fighting social injustice.
The scientist should treasure the riddles he can't solve, not explain them away at the outset.
Each Chinese person is a kind of replica of the next one and that is a very frightening thing.
The sensory world is the school, without which the human being would never come to the spirit.