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You have to persevere and fortify your pertinacity until the will to good becomes a disposition to good.
Such is the blindness, nay the insanity of mankind, that some men are driven to death by the fear of it.
Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel...You are called in to help the unhappy.
For me, philosophy is an activity of thought that is common to human beings. Human beings at their best.
We possess nothing in the world - a mere chance can strip us of everything - except the power to say 'I.
An imaginary perfection is automatically at the same level as I who imagine it neither higher nor lower.
As a Marxist, let me add: if anyone tells you Lacan is difficult, this is class propaganda by the enemy.
I know you won't believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.
One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice.
I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.
Material things are not to be despised-without them there can be no manifestation in the material world.
New sentient creatures filled the unseen depths, Life's glory and swiftness ran in the beauty of beasts.
Don't ask the mind to confirm what is beyond the mind. Direct experience is the only valid confirmation.
These moments of inner quiet will burn out all obstacles without fail. Don't doubt its efficacy. Try it.
The truth for sure, when it arrives, will make you smile. If it doesn't, you should seek a deeper truth.
Psychedelics are actually a kind of miraculous reality that can stand the test of objective examination.
You will ride the Tao toward the concrescence and will be able to live in the light of its anticipation.
A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.
Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.
Success in life, in anything, depends upon the number of persons that one can make himself agreeable to.
This is that law of the Gospel; whatsoever you require that others should do to you, that do ye to them.
The qualities we possess should never be a matter for satisfaction, but the qualities we have discarded.
Past and Future are a duality of which Present is the reality. The now-moment alone is eternal and real.
Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word.
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
It is so human a book that I don't see how belief in its divine authority can survive the reading of it.
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
In the deepest heart of all of us there is a corner in which the ultimate mystery of things works sadly.
Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
Let your mind wander in the pure and simple. Be one with the infinite. Let all things take their course.
Human affairs are like a chess game. Only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players.
A human lifespan is less than a thousand months long. You need to make some time to think how to live it.
When we look for things there is nothing but mind, and when we look for mind there is nothing but things.
Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.
Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidest and most pernicious illusion.
The artist is the most interesting of all phenomena, for he represents creativity, the definition of man.
The students [of the 60's] substituted conspicuous compassion for their parents' conspicuous consumption.
It is the characteristic of the magnanimous man to ask no favor but to be ready to do kindness to others.
Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine ACTIONS than in the non-performance of base ones.
Emotions of any kind can be evoked by melody and rhythm; therefore music has the power to form character.
If you prove the cause, you at once prove the effect; and conversely nothing can exist without its cause.
When a draco has eaten much fruit, it seeks the juice of the bitter lettuce; it has been seen to do this.
For this reason poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious attention than history.
To call the world God is not to explain it; it is only to enrich our language with a superfluous synonym.
For the world is Hell, and men are on the one hand the tormented souls and on the other the devils in it.
Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!