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The mass of mankind are evidently slavish in their tastes, preferring a life suitable to beasts.
A city is composed of different kinds of men; similar people cannot bring a city into existence.
The student of politics therefore as well as the psychologist must study the nature of the soul.
...for all men do their acts with a view to achieving something which is, in their view, a good.
But also philosophy is not about perceptible substances they, you see, are prone to destruction.
To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world.
It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.
Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.
Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.
Where there is no love, a person's faithfulness to the marriage bond is probably against nature.
Every original idea is first ridiculed, then vigorously attacked, and finally taken for granted.
The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.
My whole religion is this: do every duty, and expect no reward for it, either here or hereafter.
If we compare Europe with other continents, it is marked out as [another] persecuting continent.
All significant concepts of the modern theory of the state are secularized theological concepts.
Let one persuade many, and he becomes confirmed and convinced, and cares for no better evidence.
The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.
To know it is not as good as to love it, and to love it is not as good as to take delight in it.
I am not bothered by the fact that I am not understood. I am bothered when I do not know others.
The superior man sets his person at rest before he moves; he composes his mind before he speaks.
Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.
When you see a good man, think of emulating him; when you see a bad man, examine your own heart.
Men of principle are sure to be bold, but those who are bold may not always be men of principle.
To be in one's own heart in kindly sympathy with all things; this is the nature of righteousness
Chi Wen Tzu always thought three times before taking action. Twice would have been quite enough.
Only a fortunate few seek the Beloved. Only a blessed few seek to enter the shrine of the heart.
What a child does when not told what to do is the final indicator of what and who that child is.
At the center of care for the heart is the love of God. This must be the joyful aim of our life.
Hearing God is about the very specific issue of what it means to live with guidance in our life.
The decision to overlook the seeming inequities of life instead of reacting to them is a choice.
Nothing indeed can be a stronger presumption of falsehood than the approbation of the multitude.
Morals and criticism are not so properly objects of the understanding as of taste and sentiment.
There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.
Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.
One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.
The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.
We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams.
Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil.
What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people's faces as unfinished as their minds.
It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.
However different the holy causes people die for, they perhaps die basically for the same thing.
Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat.
Forgetfulness, and I would even say historical error, are essential in the creation of a nation.
Sexuality throws no light upon love, but only through love can we learn to understand sexuality.
True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
A man who has work that suits him and a wife, whom he loves, has squared his accounts with life.
India has created a special momentum in world history as a country to be searched for knowledge.
If I am asked 'what is good?' my answer is that good is good, and that is the end of the matter.
The air is crowded with birds -- beautiful, tender, intelligent birds -- to whom life is a song.
Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men.