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If you reflect within yourself and find nothing to be ashamed of, how could you have anxiety or fear.
The wheel of fortune turns round incessantly, and who can say to himself, I shall today be uppermost.
The superior man has a dignified ease without pride. The mean man has pride without a dignified ease.
The Superior Man is all-embracing and not partial. The inferior man is partial and not all-embracing.
I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me; I will be concerned at my own want of ability.
I believe firmly that in making ethical decisions, man has the prerogative of true freedom of choice.
It takes tremendous discipline, takes tremendous courage, to think for yourself, to examine yourself.
Martin Luther King was a radical democrat, by which I mean someone who is a foe of wealth inequality.
How long will you wait for the right time to come? The right time is now and the right place is here.
Business is a primary arrangement on God's part for people to love one another and serve one another.
The only meaning of life worth caring about is one that can withstand our best efforts to examine it.
People are afraid of being more ignorant than their children―especially, apparantly, their daughters.
People who talk well but do nothing are like musical intruments; the sound is all they have to offer.
Being asked where in Greece he saw good men, he replied, "Good men nowhere, but good boys at Sparta."
All our own present experiences are primordial. What could be more primordial than experience itself?
Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.
There are many who have grave scruples about deceiving but think it as nothing to deceive themselves.
Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.
Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.
A cleric who loses his faith abandons his calling; a philosopher who loses his redefines his subject.
The talent of historians lies in their creating a true ensemble out of facts which are but half true.
To be able to think freely, a man must be certain that no consequence will follow whatever he writes.
Capitalism is not an economic system, but a world-outlook, or rather, a part of a whole world-outlook
Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.
It is because the method of physics does not satisfy the comprehension that we have to go on further.
The opinion of the majority is not lightly to be rejected; but neither is it to be carelessly echoed.
The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.
Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.
As widowers proverbially marry again, so a man with the habit of friendship always finds new friends.
The movement of the stream is distinct from the river bed, although it must adopt its winding course.
Doctors cut, burn, and torture the sick, and then demand of them an undeserved fee for such services.
From out of all the many particulars comes oneness, and out of oneness come all the many particulars.
All things in the world of Nature are not controlled by Fate for the soul has a principle of its own.
Imprisoned is he whose heart is imprisoned from Allâh. Captured is he who is captured by his desires.
In degenerating programmes, however, theories are fabricated only in order to accommodate known facts
The Holy Spirit alone can do this, the Holy Spirit alone can establish this link with one's neighbor.
Community begins in mystery and ends in administration. Leaders move away from people and into paper.
This desire [to write] is rather strange all the same and is not without a certain "cracked" quality.
If you begin by saying, 'Thou shalt not lie,' there is no longer any possibility of political action.
To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
There's all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.
The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
We need to study the whole of history, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.
Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food
So far as we live and strive at all, our lives are various, are needed for the whole, and are unique.
Whatever is flexible and living will tend to grow; whatever is rigid and blocked will wither and die.
Goodness in words creates trust, goodness in thinking creates depth, goodness in giving creates love.
Covetousness is the greatest misfortune. One who does not know what is enough will never have enough.
People turn their eyes and ears to him (the sage), and the sage cares for them like his own children.
Those who have hardened, have a covenant with Death. Those who remain gentle are conjoined with Life.