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There is in superstition a senseless fear of God; religion consists in the pious worship of Him.
I look upon the pleasure we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life.
To wonder at nothing when it happens, to consider nothing impossible before it has come to pass.
One must do violence to the object of one's desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.
Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.
North Americans have a peculiar bias. They go outside to be alone and they go home to be social.
Character no longer is shaped by only two earnest, fumbling experts. Now all the world's a sage.
No man can claim to usurp more than a few cubic feet of the audibilities of a public room. . . .
The relationship between man and space is none other than dwelling, strictly thought and spoken.
Tradition lives because young people come along who catch its romance and add new glories to it.
There is a bigotry rampant in America, against evangelicals. It is the last respectable bigotry.
The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body
I tell the truth: your enemy is also your friend-his presence makes your life fuller and richer.
Preserve your history and become everlasting; receive new life from the times that have gone by.
Nanotechnology has been moving a little faster than I expected, virtual reality a little slower.
We are rational creatures: Our virtue and perfection is to love reason, or rather to love order.
We are standing on the threshold of a world-epoch of religious creativeness, on a cosmic divide.
Man and nature belong together in their created glory – in their tragedy and in their salvation.
It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth.
Money, it has been said, is the cause of good things to a good man, of evil things to a bad man.
A fit of laughter, which has been indulged to excess, almost always produces a violent reaction.
As there are misanthropists or haters of men, so also are there misologists, or haters of ideas.
The bees can abide no drones amongst them; but as soon as they begin to be idle, they kill them.
Socrates said that, from above, the Earth looks like one of those twelve-patched leathern balls.
All the gold upon the earth and all the gold beneath it, does not compensate for lack of virtue.
Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
In writing if it takes over 30 minutes to write the first two paragraphs select another subject.
The most important advance that the West has yet made is to develop a secularist moral tradition
I love Viennese waltzes and polkas, and especially ceilidhs and old-fashioned formation dancing.
I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.
Most naughtiness arises because the children are bored and lack a relationship with the teacher.
I just hate sitting and writing - I had to do that in school. Plus, I have terrible handwriting.
There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living; there is nothing harder to learn.
It is sweet to mingle tears with tears; Griefs, where they wound in solitude, Wound more deeply.
He shows a greater mind who does not restrain his laughter, than he who does not deny his tears.
Love consents to all and commands only those who consent. Love is abdication. God is abdication.
There is a certain kind of morality which is even more alien to good and evil than amorality is.
Art has no immediate future, because all art is collective and there is no more collective life.
It is best and easiest not to discredit others but to prepare oneself to be as good as possible.
The right way to begin is to pay attention to the young, and make them just as good as possible.
Only when it is a duty to love, only then is love eternally and happily secured against despair.
Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do
I have never fought in such a way as to say: I am the true Christian, others are not Christians.
Even in rags I am a god,fallen I am divine,high I triumph when down-trod,long I live when slain!
All kinds of indications will come from above and whatever you do must be referred to the Above.
Stay open and quiet, that is all. What you seek is so near you that there is no place for a way.
Find what is it that never sleeps and never wakes, and whose pale reflection is our sense of 'I'
Most people are fools, most authority is malignant, God does not exist, and everything is wrong.
Human beings are co-partners with deity in the project of being. This is the basis of all magic.