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Beggars do not envy millionaires, though of course they will envy other beggars who are more successful.
If one concentrates on one thing and does not get away from it ... he will possess strong, moving power.
The degree of genius necessary to please us is pretty nearly the same proportion that we ourselves have.
What makes men happy is liking what they have to do. This is a principle on which society is not founded
A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present?
Gentlemen cherish worth; the vulgar cherish dirt. Gentlemen trust in justice; the vulgar trust in favor.
Slater soaks into the mind as water into low and marshy places, where it becomes stagnant and offensive.
We will not allow this day of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial to go without somebody going to jail.
You really can't justify anything else but giving your whole attention to spiritual formation in Christ.
No matter how lost a person is, they still draw on their body. So the body would be more like the motor.
There's certainly nothing original about the observation that conscious experience poses a hard problem.
No truth appears to me more evident than that beasts are endowed with thought and reason as well as men.
Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.
When both body and mind are at peace, all things appear as they are: perfect, complete, lacking nothing.
Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.
Philosophy as science, as serious, rigorous, indeed apodictically rigorous science -- the dream is over.
In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.
It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do.
America was born modern; it did not have to achieve modernity, nor did it have modernity thrust upon it.
The correctness of much testimonially based belief is no more than minimally creditable to the believer.
To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
True poetry is a function of awakening. It awakens us, but it must retain the memory of previous dreams.
If you feel yourself to be above the mass, speak so as to raise the mass to the height of your argument.
Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.
That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.
There are three traps that strangle philosophy: The church, the marriage bed, and the professor's chair.
Science is a contemplative possession of reality through exclusion of all illusion, error and ignorance.
Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth.
The Pythagoreans degrade impious men into brutes and, if one is to believe Empedocles, even into plants.
The severe household has no fierce slaves, while it is the affectionate mother who has the prodigal son.
The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error.
The greatest enemy of authority, therefore, is contempt, and the surest way to undermine it is laughter.
To expect truth to come from thinking signifies that we mistake the need to think with the urge to know.
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body: they transmit movement to it.
Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.
When everything is in its right place within us, we ourselves are in balance with the whole work of God.
Violent passions are formed in solitude. In the busy world no object has time to make a deep impression.
The sickness of the individual is ultimately caused by and sustained by the sickness of his civilization
For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.
The sole philosophy open to those who doubt the possibility of truth is absolute silence -- even mental.
The great and admirable strength of America consists in this, that America is truly the American people.
[Happiness] comes when we choose to be who we are, to be ourselves, at this present moment in our lives.
It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.
A man speaks of what he knows, a woman of what pleases her: the one requires knowledge, the other taste.
To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.
Is it possible for a man to move the earth? Yes; but he must first find out another earth to stand upon.