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But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.
Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.
Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
There is more both of beauty and of raison d'etre in the works of nature- than in those of art.
At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
Truth is a remarkable thing. We cannot miss knowing some of it. But we cannot know it entirely.
The unfortunate need people who will be kind to them; the prosperous need people to be kind to.
The most beautiful colors laid on at random, give less pleasure than a black-and-white drawing.
Something is infinite if, taking it quantity by quantity, we can always take something outside.
We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.
The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting.
The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition.
Tranquility is like quicksilver. The harder you grab for it, the less likely you will grasp it.
I FIND IT SO DIFFICULT NOT TO HATE, WHEN I DO NOT HATE I FEEL WE FEW ARE SO LONELY IN THE WORLD
If the West can claim superiority in anything, it is . . . in science and scientific technique.
He who learns but does not think, is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.
When young, beware of fighting; when strong, beware of sex; and when old, beware of possession.
The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development.
The green reed which bends in the wind is stronger than the mighty oak which breaks in a storm.
A good man is not mine to see. Could I see a man possessed of constancy, that would satisfy me.
Cultivated people foster what is good in others, not what is bad. Petty people do the opposite.
Among the appliances to transform the people, sound and appearances are but trivial influences.
He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.
The Bible is authoritative on everything of which it speaks. Moreover, it speaks of everything.
Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.
It would be strange if we came to shun the genuine simply because it resembled the counterfeit.
Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.
There's a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.
Protagoras asserted that there are two sides to every question, exactly opposite to each other.
To escape from the world means that one's mind is not concerned with the opinions of the world.
To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness.
It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink.
It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.
There is a tendency to judge a race, a nation or any distinct group by its leastworthy members.
We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression.
The act of self-denial seems to confer on us the right to be harsh and merciless toward others.
The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.
A ray of imagination or of wisdom may enlighten the universe, and glow into remotest centuries.
I might as well doubt of my own being, as of the being of those things I actually see and feel.
Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims.
Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old fashioned
It is not society's fault that most men seem to miss their vocation. Most men have no vocation.
A fanatical imagination cannot regard God as just unless he is represented as infinitely cruel.
It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality
Faith in the self-attesting Christ of Scripture is the beginning, not the end result of wisdom.