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Man is effective in the world not only through what he does, but above all through what he is.
That which secures life from exhaustion lies in the unseen world, deep at the roots of things.
We differ from one another in our individual gifts which, however, belong to our inner nature.
Die Kunst ist ewig, ihre Formen wandeln sich. (The art is eternal, their shapes are changing.)
Refuse to let the thought of death bother you: nothing is grim when we have escaped that fear.
What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.
Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
There are a few men whom slavery holds fast, but there are many more who hold fast to slavery.
May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
He invites the commission of a crime who does not forbid it, when it is in his power to do so.
The easiest rationalization for the refusal to seek the truth is the denial that truth exists.
There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.
Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.
Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.
What if culture itself is nothing but a halt, a break, a respite, in the pursuit of barbarity?
If what you want to tell me is neither True nor Good nor even Useful, why tell it to me at all
If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge; and one only evil, namely, ignorance.
If you will be guided by me, you will make little account of Socrates, and much more of truth.
Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius.
When thou findest thyself scorning another, look then at thy own heart and laugh at thy folly.
The world you perceive is made of consciousness; what you call matter is consciousness itself.
Cooperate with your destiny, don't go against it, don't thwart it. Allow it to fulfill itself.
We need a metaphor that can contain the daemon of the future that we have conjured into being.
Television is, to my mind, the most insidious drug that the 20th Century has had to deal with.
All destruction, by violent revolution or however it be, is but new creation on a wider scale.
A mind that has seen, and suffered, and done, speaks to us of what it has tried and conquered.
Great is journalism. Is not every able editor a ruler of the world, being the persuader of it?
If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
Music... a kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads to the edge of the Infinite.
Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, altogether past calculation its powers of endurance.
Love not pleasure; love God. This is the Everlasting Yea, wherein all contradiction is solved.
We are not altogether here to tolerate. We are here to resist, to control and vanquish withal.
Large companies are very good at solving extremely complex problems in a globally optimal way.
The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.
Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
Real servants don't try to use God for their purposes. They let God use them for His purposes.
Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
Why may we not be in the universe, as our dogs and cats are in our drawingrooms and libraries?
Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us; our hour of triumph is what brings the void.
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
It's no longer enough to teach our children Bible stories; they need doctrine and apologetics.
Never increase, beyond what is necessary, the number of entities required to explain anything.
Fishing is a pleasure of retirement, yet the angler has the power to let the fish live or die.
I saw a Divine Being. I'm afraid I'm going to have to revise all my various books and opinions.
The human race will then become one family, and the world will be the dwelling of Rational Men.