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I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly. [Lat., Malo indisertam prudentiam, quam loquacem stultitiam.]
The alphabet was one thing when applied to clay or stone, and quite another when set down on light papyrus.
My power is my property. My power gives me property. My power am I myself, and through it am I my property.
People is the name of the body, State of the spirit, of that ruling person that has hitherto suppressed me.
When the Soul wants to experience something she throws out an image in front of her and then steps into it.
This then is salvation - when we marvel at the beauty of created things and praise their beautiful Creator.
Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons?
I'm not making a problem out of a personal question; I make of a personal question an absence of a problem.
The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight.
Facts are constituted by older ideologies, and a clash between facts and theories may be proof of progress.
The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct.
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
The men who abandon themselves to the passions of this miserable life, are compared in Scripture to beasts.
Killing a defective infant is not morally equivalent to killing a person. Sometimes it is not wrong at all.
Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.
The idea that all problems either have a solution or can be shown to be pseudo-problems is not one I share.
There is nothing so far removed from us as to be beyond our reach, or so hidden that we cannot discover it.
A talent for speaking differently, rather than for arguing well is the chief instrument of cultural change.
If we think about it, all great discoveries and paradigm shifts are always stimulated by an external event.
Knowledge has value only insofar as it contributes to the all-round development of the whole nature of man.
He, who decides a case without hearing the other side, though he decides justly, cannot be considered just.
A dwarf is small even if he stands on a mountain; a colossus keeps his height, even if he stands in a well.
We sought therefore to amend our will, and not to suffer it through despite to languish long time in error.
A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
The demonstrable correlation of opposites is an image of the transcendental correlation of contradictories.
How many people have been thus led, through lack of self-confidence, to stifle their most justified doubts?
We can do nothing without the body, let us always take care that it is in the best condition to sustain us.
Human relations are like the irregular verbs in a number of languages where nearly all verbs are irregular.
The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as the trade secret of paleontology.
In the Christianity of Christendom the Cross has become something like the child’s hobby-horse and trumpet.
Do not neglect this body. This is the house of God; take care of it, only in this body can God be realized.
I am timeless being. I am free of desire or fear, because I do not remember the past or imagine the future.
The continual pursuit of meanings-wider, clearer, more negotiable, more articulate meanings- is philosophy.
The western mind, because of it's unique history, is the most sensitive mind to the impact of psychedelics.
It seems to me that it is psyche in a way that has become occluded by the perverse development of language.
It is now almost my sole rule of life to clear myself of cants and formulas, as of poisonous Nessus shirts.
There are female dandies as well as clothes-wearing men; and the former are as objectionable as the latter.
Does not every true man feel that he is himself made higher by doing reverence to what is really above him?
He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
We with our lives are like islands in the sea... The islands also hang together through the ocean's bottom.
I don't see how an epigram, being a bolt from the blue, with no introduction or cue, ever gets itself writ.
When you have two competing theories that make exactly the same predictions, the simpler one is the better.
When affirmation and negation came into being, Tao faded. After Tao faded, then came one-sided attachments.
The learned ignore the evidence of their senses to preserve the coherence of the ideas of their imagination.
Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.
G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason. Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.
Zen is a way of liberation, concerned not with discovering what is good or bad or advantageous, but what is.
Many people think that the Bible is the authentic word of God and they worship the Bible, making it an idol.
Law may prescribe that the male nipples be made equal to the female ones, but they still will not give milk.