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Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.
The greatest intellectual capacities are only found in connection with a vehement and passionate will.
The first rule for a good style is to have something to say; in fact, this in itself is almost enough.
He, who knows how to distinguish between true and false, must have an adequate idea of true and false.
If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
The virtue of a free man appears equally great in refusing to face difficulties as in overcoming them.
We seldom call anybody lazy, but such as we reckon inferior to us, and of whom we expect some service.
Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?
Who is wiser: the man who plants flowers along life's way or the man who makes it bristle with thorns?
Don't be concerned about others not appreciating you. Be concerned about your not appreciating others.
The archer who misses his mark does not blame the target. He stops, corrects himself and shoots again.
The Master was entirely free from four things: prejudice, foregone conclusions, obstinacy, and egoism.
It is not kindness to tell patients that need strong medicine that nothing serious is wrong with them.
It is not so much that we, using our brains, spin our yarns, as that our brains, using yarns, spin us.
There are no forces on this planet more dangerous to all of us than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism.
The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
The health and vigor necessary for the practice of what is good, depend equally on both mind and body.
The mountains too, at a distance, appear airy masses and smooth, but seen near at hand they are rough.
Nothing in the world, no object or event, would be true or false if there were not thinking creatures.
Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.
The majority prove their worth by keeping busy. A busy life is the nearest thing to a purposeful life.
Unlimited opportunities can be as potent a cause of frustration as a paucity or lack of opportunities.
The readiness to praise others indicates a desire for excellence and perhaps an ability to realize it.
It is our talents rusting unused within us that secrete the poison of self-doubt into our bloodstream.
Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident.
It is not love of self but hatred of self which is at the root of the troubles that afflict our world.
It is thus with most of us; we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay.
The conservatism of a religion - it's orthodoxy - is the inert coagulum of a once highly reactive sap.
Of great interest to students and teachers of immigrant history as well as to those of Polish descent.
Capitalism is not an economic system, but a world-outlook, or rather, a part of a whole world-outlook.
...all phenomena are correlated in one absolute and necessary law, from which they can all be deduced.
The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.
If all art aspires to the condition of music, all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics.
It is rash to intrude upon the piety of others: both the depth and the grace of it elude the stranger.
Music contains a whole gamut of experience, from sensuous elements to ultimate intellectual harmonies.
Every real object must cease to be what it seemed, and none could ever be what the whole soul desired.
Intuition is neither a feeling, an inspiration nor a disorderly sympathy but a fully developed method.
A god or revelation capable of proof or rational verification by an autonomous man would be worthless.
The true dividing line between people is whether they are capable of being in love with their destiny.
Kierkegaard, Marx, and Nietzsche are for us like guideposts to a past which has lost its significance.
From Gadamer I learned that to understand a given thinker requires one to presuppose that he is right.
You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.
A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.
For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.
Sympathy is the first condition of criticism; reason and justice presuppose, at their origin, emotion.
Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command.
Wisdom is one thing, to know how to make true judgment, how all things are steered through all things.
Effective health care depends on self-care; this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery.
When there is propaganda, we are no longer able to evaluate certain questions, or even to discuss them
Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere.