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Music is moral law. It is the essence of order and leads to all that is good, true and beautiful.
There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
I think you can have a Left that isn't culturally conservative talking about lunch-bucket issues.
Marriage does not exist for the benefit of the present generation but for the benefit of the next
The conservative is the one who understands his own society from within and loves and defends it.
Each one of us has it in themselves to be a free spirit, just as every rose bud has in it a rose.
Not that which is inspires the creation, but that which may be; not the actual, but the possible.
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
A good person dyes events with his own color . . . and turns whatever happens to his own benefit.
It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.
It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.
The proper amount of wealth is that which neither descends to poverty nor is far distant from it.
The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.
He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
The Spirit is neither good nor bad, it runs where the wild heart leads" "Wisdom begins in wonder.
The beginning is the most important part, especially when dealing with anything young and tender.
To be a teacher in the right sense is to be a learner. I am not a teacher, only a fellow student.
If Hell were possible, it would be the shortest cut to the highest heaven. For verily God loveth.
Pleasure puts you to sleep and pain wakes you up. If you don't want to suffer, don't go to sleep.
Whatever can be understood or perceived can never be the eternal Truth. The Unknown is the Truth.
The seeds of civilization are in every culture, but it is city life that brings them to fruition.
Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do that with all thy might and leave the issues calmly to God.
For every one hundred men who can stand adversity there is only one who can withstand prosperity.
Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.
May blessings be upon the head of Cadmus, the Phoenicians, or whoever it was that invented books.
If you want the truth rather than merely something to say, you will have a good deal less to say.
I see the beauty of God's archetypal infinity reflected in the towers of infinities in set theory
God has given us the fascination and mystery of irrational numbers, as one aspect of a rich world
True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.
If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
It’s the combination of improbability with an independently given pattern that discredits chance.
Lack of love for the vegetative, subtle, cthonic, pagan, and sexy aspect of the world means death.
To know that you are God is another way of saying that you feel completely one with this universe.
Even under a harsh God-and I do not believe in a harsh God-one is entitled to serenity in old age.
Reason is the power or capacity whereby we see or detect logical relationships among propositions.
But nature flies from the infinite; for the infinite is imperfect, and nature always seeks an end.
Justice is the loveliest and health is the best. but the sweetest to obtain is the heart's desire.
Good has two meanings: it means that which is good absolutely and that which is good for somebody.
A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employments.
The misanthrope, as an essentially solitary man, is not a man at all: he must be a beast or a god.
So it is clear that the search for what is just is a search for the mean; for the law is the mean.
Our judgments when we are pleased and friendly are not the same as when we are pained and hostile.
In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.
Ordinary people merely think how they shall 'spend' their time; a man of talent tries to 'use' it.