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The one who is conscious (in Tao) can't speak. The one who can speak is not conscious (centered in Tao)
Can you let go of words and ideas, attitudes and expectations? If so, then the Tao will loom into view.
Because clarity and enlightenment are within your own nature, they are regained without moving an inch.
Whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. What is soft is strong.
Is still fulfilling its social function in supplying the consumers with more, better and cheaper goods.
We are asleep. Our Life is a dream. But we wake up sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming.
Suppose someone were to say: 'Imagine this butterfly exactly as it is, but ugly instead of beautiful'?!
Philosophy may in no way interfere with the actual use of language; it can in the end only describe it.
Inspire me with love for my art and for thy creatures. In the sufferer let me see only the human being.
All attributes ascribed to God are attributes of His acts, and do not imply that God has any qualities.
For even if the allotted space of life be short, it is long enough in which to live honorably and well.
The injuries that befall us unexpectedly are less severe than those which are deliberately anticipated.
When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.
Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.
Once you see the boundaries of your environment, they are no longer the boundaries of your environment.
Logos is the formal cause of the kosmos and all things, responsible for their nature and configuration.
Typography tended to alter language from a means of perception and exploration to a portable commodity.
Books that distribute things... with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams, put us on our feet again.
The world is... the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions.
God is nearer to me than I am to myself; He is just as near to wood and stone, but they do not know it.
'The prison' begins well before its doors. It begins as soon as you leave your house - and even before.
I discovered philosophy in my youth when I read 'wildly,' and thus I was exposed to the world of ideas.
The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks.
The state has physical power and uses it when necessary; the power of religion is love and beneficence.
It is true that we are made of dust. And the world is also made of dust. But the dust has motes rising.
The religion of that prophet [Karl Marx] who knew not the truth, is founded upon equality of the belly.
What sort of god would deliberately create a world in which his creatures must eat one another to live?
There is no logical staircase running from the physics of 10-28 cm. to the physics of 1028 light-years.
Woman, in short, has an unconscious life, man a conscious life, and the genius the most conscious life.
But the higher a man mounts, the greater may be his fall; all genius is a conquering of chaos, mystery.
A man is first reverent about himself, and self-respect is the first stage in reverence for all things.
Never will this prevail, that the things that are not are — bar your thought from this road of inquiry.
Parents need to listen as much to their kids as they do to them: "The first duty of love is to listen."
Being happy is a great science. If you are not happy, do not be confused. Happiness is hard to achieve.
God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.
The future is in the hands of those who can give tomorrow's generations valid reasons to live and hope.
When humans truly discover the power of love, it will prove more important than the harnessing of fire.
Specialisation paralyses, ultra-specialisation kills. Palaeontology is littered with such catastrophes.
The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
When the citizens of a society can see and hear their leaders, then that society should be seen as one.
Of all the things which a man has, next to the gods his soul is the most divine and most truly his own.
Learn silence. With the quiet serenity of a meditative mind, listen, absorb, transcribe, and transform.
Humanistic law aims at saving man and remaking society. For Humanism, salvation is an act of the state.
A man can do his best only by confidently seeking (and perpetually missing) an unattainable perfection.
It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
Styles may change, details may come and go, but the broad demands of aesthetic judgement are permanent.
The history of our spiritual life is a continuing search for the unity between ourselves and the world.
The mind should be allowed some relaxation, that it may return to its work all the better for the rest.
Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.
Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.