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To carry language from two dimensions into three is the task of the poets, and the rebels in the 20th Century.
The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams.
Every click of the cosmic clock brings us closer to the process for which the planet called us into existence.
In the way that the 15th Century discovered the New World, the 20th Century discovered the parallel continuum.
By passing into the psychedelic phase, the space-faring phase, the entire species is passing into adolescence.
We need a pharmacological intervention on anti-social behavior or we are not going to get hold of our dilemma.
Great souls are always loyally submissive, reverent to what is over them: only small mean souls are otherwise.
There is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in Idleness alone is there perpetual despair.
A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads.
Man is, and was always, a block-head and dullard; much readier to feel and digest, than to think and consider.
No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.
I call that [Book of Job], apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with pen.
Misery which, through long ages, had no spokesman, no helper, will now be its own helper and speak for itself.
The nobleness of silence. The highest melody dwells only in silence,--the sphere melody, the melody of health.
It is within science itself, and not in some prior philosophy, that reality is to be identified and described.
The lore of our fathers is a fabric of sentences. A pale gray lore, black with fact and white with convention.
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
Pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate. A plurality (of reasons) should not be posited without necessity.
Men of this world all rejoice in others being like themselves, and object to others not being like themselves.
Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
Attention is the mind's feet; if you do not control your attention strictly, it runs into misleading pathways.
What can be added to the happiness of the man who is in health, who is out of debt, and has a clear conscience?
It is necessary to gain the common people to our order. The best means to that end is influence in the schools.
In this world everything that is won to the ideal, is an eternal (or imperishable, - "impérissable", Fr.) good.
Basically, there is simply nothing to worry about, because you yourself are the eternal energy of the universe.
Most of all I admire Mozart's capacity to be both deep and rational, a combination often said to be impossible.
The way I knew I was right about something was the kids got angry. That's very important: you touch that anger.
The intelligence consists not only in the knowledge but also in the skill to apply the knowledge into practice.
The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse.
Music has a power of forming the character, and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young.
I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
In the state of nature, wrong-doing is impossible ; or, if anyone does wrong, it is to himself, not to another.
God and Satan alike are essentially human figures, the one a projection of ourselves, the other of our enemies.
All's well that ends well; which is the epitaph I should put on my tombstone if I were the last man left alive.
No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.
Curious learning not only makes unpleasant things less unpleasant but also makes pleasant things more pleasant.
This is one of those views which are so absolutely absurd that only very learned men could possibly adopt them.
In the most civilized and progressive countries freedom of discussion is recognized as a fundamental principle.
It is known that the best nations have always been those which concede the greatest amount of liberty to women.
There is not a single truth of science upon which we ought to bet more than about a million of millions to one.
There is but one man who can believe himself free from envy; and it is he who has never examined his own heart.
Without that innate sense of human worth, a man cannot long endure adversity, nor can he long enjoy prosperity.
The people may be put into the way they should go, though they may not be put into the way of understanding it.
If I am building a mountain and stop before the last basketful of earth is placed on the summit, I have failed.
Ask yourself constantly, "What is the right thing to do?" Behave toward everyone as if receiving a great guest.
A fully functional multiracial society cannot be achieved without a sense of history and open, honest dialogue.
We have to be self-critical even in context that we might be critical of, even as we - our pieces appear in it.
American citizens have been killed abroad by drones with no due process, no accountability, no judicial review.
The picture of fallen man as given in Scripture is that he knows God but does not want to recognize Him as God.
Knowing the 'right answers' does not mean we believe them. To believe them means to act as though they're true.