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Exemplary persons are steadfast in the face of adversity, while petty persons are engulfed by it.
To prefer it is better than to only know it. To delight in it is better than merely to prefer it.
To find the Tao, there is nowhere you need to search. If it is not inside you, it is not the Tao.
Music is the one thing in which there is no use trying to deceive others or make false pretenses.
Let a man be stimulated by poetry, established by the rules of propriety, and perfected by music.
Shall I tell you what knowledge is? It is to know both what one knows and what one does not know.
When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature, we have the pedant.
There is nothing more visible than what is secret, and nothing more manifest than what is minute.
A father's and a mother's age must be borne in mind; with joy on the one hand, fear on the other.
Many seek happiness higher than men; others beneath him. But happiness is the same height as man.
It probably helps that my background is in the sciences and I can speak the scientists' language.
A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.
Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.
When asked what learning was the most necessary, he said, Not to unlearn what you have learned!
Bion used to say that the way to the shades below was easy; he could go there with his eyes shut.
The creative person prefers the richness of the disordered to the stark barrenness of the simple.
The nature of God is a circle of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.
It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
We clamor for equality chiefly in matters in which we ourselves cannot hope to obtain excellence.
Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success
The epic disappeared along with the age of personal heroism; there can be no epic with artillery.
The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
Feminism liberated women from the natural dignity of their sex and turned them into inferior men.
Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.
Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols.
Men have feverishly conceived a heaven only to find it insipid, and a hell to find it ridiculous.
The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.
Can you harness the power of drugs without them taking over, without turning into a dazed zombie?
Being is unrecognizable unless it manages to seem, and seeming is feeble unless it manages to be.
Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses.
Act so that the effects of your actions are compatible with the permanence of genuine human life.
Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.
No same man could walk through the same river twice, as the man and the river have since changed.
The Superego, in censoring the unconscious and in implanting conscience, also censors the censor.
Aggression which is flagitious when committed by one, is not sanctioned when committed by a host.
Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity.
An action is essentially good if the motive of the agent be good, regardless of the consequences.
Liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or human happiness or a quiet conscience.
The tragedy of the modern democracies is that they have not yet succeeded in realizing democracy.
All beneficent and creative power gathers itself together in silence, ere it issues out in might.
The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
The desert is no longer a landscape, it is a pure form produced by the abstraction of all others.
The man is best served who has no occasion to put the hands of others at the end of his own arms.
The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.
Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
I wanted my own words. But the ones I use have dragged through I don't know how many consciences.
The more one is absorbed in fighting evil, the less one is tempted to place the good in question.
This is the basis for the joy of love when there is joy; we feel that our existence is justified.