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Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to a man himself.
To manage your mind, know that there is nothing, and then relinquish all attachment to nothingness.
It is because every one tinder Heaven recognizes beauty as beauty that the idea of ugliness exists.
The contemporary rejection of natural right leads to nihilism - nay, it is identical with nihilism.
The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have always known.
If God had looked into our minds he would not have been able to see there whom we were speaking of.
If the soul has food for study and learning, nothing is more delightful than an old age of leisure.
We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.
He who acknowledges a kindness has it still, and he who has a grateful sense of it has requited it.
I will adhere to the counsels of good men, although misfortune and death should be the consequence.
Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook.
Time’ has ceased, 'space' has vanished. We now live in a global village... a simultaneous happening
Attention spans get very weak at the speed of light, and that goes along with a very weak identity.
The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings.
People are eager to comment on something when they themselves are not in the situation of doing it.
In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.
Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul's contact with the body.
I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.
I Shall Look At The World Through Tears. Perhaps I Shall See Things That, Dry-Eyed, I Could Not See
Testimony demands to be interpreted because of the dialectic of meaning and event that traverses it
Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder.
Knowledge of that which concerns us infinitely is possible only in an attitude of infinite concern.
Scholars have long dreamed of a universal library containing everything that has ever been written.
If penicillin had been judged by its toxicity to guinea pigs, it might never have been used by man.
He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.
A tyrant... is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
Don't force your children into your ways, for they were created for a time different from your own.
Watch a man at play for an hour and you can learn more about him than in talking to him for a year.
This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.
Many things prevent knowledge, including the obscurity of the subject and the brevity of human life
Let us hold our discussion together in our own persons, making trial of the truth and of ourselves.
As to gods, I have no way of knowing either that they exist or do not exist, or what they are like.
Christianity is completely and radically anti-democratic; it is committed to spiritual aristocracy.
The complete man, then, is the "lover" added to the scientist; the rhetorician to the dialectician.
Also see how many quarters of corn you will spend in a week in dispensable bread, how much in alms.
A man is crazy who writes a secret in any other way than one which will conceal it from the vulgar.
I know ideals aren't realities, but they do influence reality - social, legal, political, cultural.
There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice.
Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.
No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
To be innocent is to bear the weight of the entire universe. It is to throw away the counterweight.
The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.
He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
A man can no more make a safe use of wealth without reason than he can of a horse without a bridle.
The unhappy person is never present to themself because they always live in the past or the future.
Only one human being recognized as one's neighbour is necessary in order to cure a man of self-love
Wisdom is knowing I am nothing, Love is knowing I am everything, and between the two my life moves.