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Everybody tends to merge his identity with other people at the speed of light. It's called being mass man.
I'm not sure I can take your advice. You are dealing with English Gentlemen. We are dealing with monsters.
The perceived world is the always-presupposed foundation of all rationality, all value, and all existence.
All the seemingly positive valuations and judgments of ressentiment are hidden devaluations and negations.
[W]e must come into a transformed knowing, an unknowing which comes not from ignorance but from knowledge.
Let men decide firmly what they will not do, and they will be free to do vigorously what they ought to do.
Every human being is born an heir to an inheritance to which he can succeed only in a process of learning.
One should try to locate power at the extreme of its exercise, where it is always less legal in character.
Angels are not merely forms of extraterrestrial intelligence. They are forms of extra-cosmic intelligence.
The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight
I, therefore, demand the formation of a consolidated Muslim State in the best interest of India and Islam.
When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.
Not only virtue, but also insight, not only sanctity but also wisdom, are the duties and tasks of mankind.
Man is able to decide for or against reason, he is able to create beyond reason or to destroy below reason
We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other.
Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead. Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.
The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation.
The most beautiful motion is that which accomplishes the greatest results with the least amount of effort.
And may we not say, Adeimantus, that the most gifted minds, when they are ill- educated, become the worst?
Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year, for it is wrong to add fire to fire.
We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
Voting is the least arduous of a citizen's duties. He has the prior and harder duty of making up his mind.
Life without prejudice, were it ever to be tried, would soon reveal itself to be a life without principle.
The future is not a scenario written, which we only have to act out; it is a work which we have to create.
We are fully human only while playing, and we play only when we are human in the truest sense of the word.
If there is something more powerful than destiny, this must be the human being who bears destiny unshaken.
What's the good of dragging up sufferings which are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then.
We are born subjects, and to obey God is perfect liberty. He that does this shall be free, safe and happy.
The man who does something under orders is not unhappy; he is unhappy who does something against his will.
Before impugning an opponent's motives, even when they legitimately may be impugned, answer his arguments.
The development of the faculty of attention forms the real object and almost the sole interest of studies.
All the tragedies which we can imagine return in the end to the one and only tragedy: the passage of time.
Virtue does not come from wealth, but wealth, and every other good thing which men have comes from virtue.
No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.
Late, I learned that when reason died, then Wisdom was born; before that liberation, I had only knowledge.
The personal needs a base, a body to identify oneself with, just as a colour needs a surface to appear on.
A user interface should be so simple that a beginner in an emergency can understand it within ten seconds.
So, I was always frustrated having to write and having to cut things. Why should you have to cut anything?
The miracle of our predicament is not how long everything has been in place but how brief it all has been.
After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books.
A heavenly awe overshadowed and encompassed, as it still ought, and must, all earthly business whatsoever.
For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism; but, in a far truer sense, its creator and producer.
Men worship the shows of great men; the most disbelieve that there is any reality of great men to worship.
In private life I never knew anyone interfere with other people's disputes but he heartily repented of it.
It is not a lucky word, this name impossible; no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths.
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
Antipater uses us favourably if he looks upon us as staves, but very hardly if he considers us as freemen.
Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
A chest of gold coins or a fat wallet of bills is of no use whatsoever to a wrecked sailor alone on a raft.
At times almost all of us envy the animals. They suffer and die, but do not seem to make a "problem" of it.