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The policies advocated by the welfare school remove the incentive to saving on the part of private citizens.
History can tell us what happened in the past. But it cannot assert that it must happen again in the future.
Promises are not to be kept, if the keeping of them is to prove harmful to those to whom you have made them.
No man was ever great without divine inspiration. [Lat., Nemo vir magnus aliquo afflatu divino unquam fuit.]
If a man aspires to the highest place, it is no dishonor to him to halt at the second, or even at the third.
There is nothing more shocking than to see assertion and approval dashing ahead of cognition and perception.
The electric age ... established a global network that has much the character of our central nervous system.
Is it only the mouth and belly which are injured by hunger and thirst? Men's minds are also injured by them.
My ancestors were Brahmins. They spent their lives in search of god. I am spending my life in search of man.
We should not be confident in our ability to keep a super-intelligent genie locked up in its bottle forever.
We would want the solution to the safety problem before somebody figures out the solution to the AI problem.
The validity of usefulness, adequacy of popular standards can be tested only by research that violates them.
Nothing truly real is forgotten eternally, because everything real comes from eternity and goes to eternity.
The human person is the sum total of a 15 billion year chain of unbroken evolution now thinking about itself
A breeze passes in the night. When did it spring up? Whence does it come? Whither is it going? No man knows.
I owe the best of myself to geology, but everything it has taught me tends to turn me away from dead things.
Music has the capacity to touch the innermost reaches of the soul and music gives flight to the imagination.
Fields and trees are not willing to teach me anything; but this can be effected by men residing in the city.
Violent pleasures which reach the soul through the body are generally of this sort-they are reliefs of pain.
The Gods have proclaimed Christ to have been most pious, but the Christians are a confused and vicious sect.
Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.
It is to the body alone that we should attribute everything that can be observed in us to oppose our reason.
Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.
I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it's been pretty fun.
Literature is like phosphorus: it shines with its maximum brilliance and the moment when it attempts to die.
The state of that man's mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it.
Nullum ad nocendum tempus angustum est malis. No time is too short for the wicked to injure their neighbors.
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
Why I so much prefer autumn to spring is that in the autumn one looks at heaven--in the spring at the earth.
What a misfortune to be a woman! And yet, the worst misfortune is not to understand what a misfortune it is.
Most people live dejectedly in worldly joys or sorrows. They sit on the sidelines and do not join the dance.
What blinds us, or what makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness of our ignorance.
I think psychedelics are sort of like doing calisthenics in preparation for the marathon at the end of time.
Now, through the catalytic interaction with technology, the human species is getting set to redefine itself.
DMT is the most powerful hallucinogen there is. If it gets stronger than that I don't want to know about it.
One of the things that people don't do enough of when they do psychedelic work is spend time in the library.
Ultimately, I think, what the psychedelic experience may be is a higher topological manifold of temporality.
One of the things that's so striking about shamanism in the native context is the absence of mental illness.
Skepticism . . . is not intellectual only it is moral also, a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul.
Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
And man's little Life has Duties that are great, that are alone great, and go up to Heaven and down to Hell.
Perfect ignorance is quiet, perfect knowledge is quiet; not so the transition from the former to the latter.
The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof.
Faith is a gift of God, which man can neither give nor take away by promise of rewards or menace of torture.
Everyone is entitled to commit murder in the imagination once in a while, not to mention lesser infractions.
Wine is not discovered but made: it is an artifact that can be appraised that can be appraised aesthetically
The notion that human life has greater value than any other form of life is both unjustifiable and arrogant.
The emotions aren't always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.