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It is more difficult to designate this form of conation on its practical side by a satisfactory name.
Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.
No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.
When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.
The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded upon the spirituality of work.
The nearest way to glory a shortcut, as it were is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
If I could prescribe only one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence.
If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin.
What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?
To be a teacher does not mean simply to affirm that such a thing is so, or to deliver a lecture, etc.
What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.
You have put so much energy into building a prison for yourself. Now spend as much on demolishing it.
If you want peace and harmony in the world, you must have peace and harmony in your hearts and minds.
I try to keep my voice in writing, and I think that's why I get so many complaints about how I write.
As comedy presents the vital rhythm of self-preservation, tragedy exhibits that of self-consummation.
In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.
The tryptamine molecule has this unique property of releasing the structured self into the over-self.
Part of what being involved in the psychedelic experience is about is reclaiming your own experience.
I don't believe that shamanism without hallucinogens is authentic shamanism or comfortable shamanism.
Shamanism is about shape shifting. Shamanism is about doing phenomenology with a tool kit that works.
A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.
It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.
"Love is not altogether a Delirium," says he elsewhere; "yet has it many points in common therewith."
At worst, is not this an unjust world, full of nothing but beasts of prey, four-footed or two-footed?
The fine arts once divorcing themselves from truth are quite certain to fall mad, if they do not die.
How indestructibly the good grows, and propagates itself, even among the weedy entanglements of evil.
There is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed.
If any two men desire the same thing, which nevertheless they cannot both enjoy, they become enemies.
Philosophy is the childhood of the intellect, and a culture that tries to skip it will never grow up.
Leading a human life is a full-time occupation, to which everyone devotes decades of intense concern.
Results are nothing; the energies which produce them and which again spring from them are everything.
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
One may as well go, as look into another man's house; because the eye may reach what the hand cannot.
Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.
Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.
What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?
Possessions of this world have not been for the exclusive use by such or such category of individuals.
When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point.
The Greek word for sinning means to ‘miss the point;’ The point is eternal life which is here and now.
For me, being literate and articulate is a form of judo, of overcoming the [system] by its own method.
Our view of reality is like a chart of the sea - the truer it is, the less likely we will become lost.
Only words and conventions can isolate us from the entirely undefinable something which is everything.
No worthwhile life can be lived without risks, despite current American superstitions to the contrary.
Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god, but a great rock, and the sun a hot rock.
Thus Pyrrhonism is not a sect of people who are persuaded of what they say, but it is a sect of liars.
It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.
What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has or how he is regarded by others.
To desire immortality for the individual is really the same as wanting to perpetuate an error forever.