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A moral point of view too often serves as a substitute for understanding in technological matters.
It is perhaps typical of very creative minds that they hit very large nails not quite on the head.
Why is it so easy to acquire the solutions of past problems and so difficult to solve current ones
To begin with oneself but not to end with onself. To start from oneself but not to aim at oneself.
We should never allow our fears or the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny.
So long as we represent technology as an instrument, we remain held fast in the will to master it.
By humility, out of an enemy He has made a friend, which is more than to have created a new earth.
What philosophy worthy of the name has truly been able to avoid the link between poem and theorem?
Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions.
The obvious is the hardest thing of all to point out to anyone who has genuinely lost sight of it.
I am less attracted to guesses about what cannot be done, than about making progress on a problem.
Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder
One cannot be strong without love. For love is not an irrelevant emotion; it is the blood of life.
The Age of Nations is past. The task before us now, if we would not perish, is to build the Earth.
Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all.
Don't try to cover your mistakes with false words. Rather, correct your mistakes with examination.
We ought not to quit our post without the permission of Him who commands; the post of man is life.
The result of becoming tolerant towards sin is that we become intolerant towards God and His Word.
A man's faith governs the totality of his life, or else his professed faith is not his real faith.
Asking what the question is, and why the question is asked, is always asking a pertinent question.
... even when we find not what we seek, we find something as well worth seeking as what we missed.
No one has ever announced that because determinism is true thermostats do not control temperature.
The "outside" constitutes the horizon of meaning and the vital energy of our practice and thought.
When gifts are replaced by rights, so is gratitude replaced by claims. And claims breed resentment
Lives are destroyed by many things. They are destroyed by anti-racism too, as Ray Honeyford's was.
Architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience.
The masses are in reality their own leaders, dialectically creating their own development process.
Only to the rude ear of one who is quite indifferent does the song of a bird seem always the same.
When the human being sings he lends expression to the great wise ways in which the world was made.
Only a person who has passed through the gate of humility can ascend to the heights of the spirit.
The capacities by which we can gain insights into higher worlds lie dormant within each one of us.
The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental.
What difference does it make, after all, what your position in life is if you dislike it yourself?
These individulas have riches just as we say that we 'have a fever,' when really the fever has us.
The best way to do good to ourselves is to do it to others; the right way to gather is to scatter.
A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
There is no evil that does not offer inducements. Vices tempt you by the rewards which they offer.
Philosophy, most broadly viewed, is the critical survey of existence from the standpoint of value.
Wisdom is an affair of values, and of value judgments. It is intelligent conduct of human affairs.
We must love all facts, not for their consequences, but because in each fact God is there present.
When you propose ridiculous things to believe, too many men will choose to believe nothing at all.
We shall be better, braver, and more active if we believe it right to look for what we don't know.
The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have.
Any truth is only true up to a certain point. When one oversteps the mark, it becomes a non-truth.
The question is asked in ignorance, by one who does not even know what can have led him to ask it.
Arise, transcend Thyself, Thou art man and the whole nature of man Is to become more than himself.
But difficulties were made to be overcome and if the Supreme Will is there, they will be overcome.
As long as your ideas of what's possible are limited by what's actual, no other idea has a chance.
A philosophy is characterized more by the formulation of its problem than by its solution of them.