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The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.
Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world.
Upon consideration of the central question of the moon's toughness there can be little doubt. It is hella tough.
The poets are nothing but interpreters of the gods, each one possessed by the divinity to whom he is in bondage.
Do not spend in excess like one who is careless of what is good, nor be miserly; the mean is best in every case.
Many words befall men, mean and noble alike; do not be astonished by them, nor allow yourself to be constrained.
He that said it was not good for man to be alone, placed the celibate amongst the inferior states of perfection.
Conservatives resonate to Burke's view of society, as a partnership between the living, the unborn and the dead.
To people like me, educated in post-war Britain, free speech has been a firm premise of the British way of life.
Anthroposophy is not a game, nor just a theory; it is a task that must be faced for the sake of human evolution.
Truth is a free creation of the human spirit, that never would exist at all if we did not generate it ourselves.
The strength people need to proceed along the path of human development can come only from the spiritual worlds.
It's all in your headJ you have the power to make things seem hard or easy or even amusing. The choice is yours.
Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.
The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort.
Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
Nature does not turn out her work according to a single pattern; she prides herself upon her power of variation.
Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
It is not my business to think about myself. My business is to think about God. It is for God to think about me.
The full expression of personality depends upon its being inflated by social prestige; it is a social privilege.
May I consider the wise man rich, and may I have such wealth as only the self-restrained man can bear or endure.
For he who loves God without faith reflects on himself, while the person who loves God in faith reflects on God.
What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees.
Forgiveness is praised by the Christian and the Vaishnava, but for me, I ask, "What have I to forgive and whom?"
Discard every self-seeking motive as soon as it is seen, and you need not search for truth; truth will find you.
How is MS-DOS like MSG? Both raise your blood pressure and give you a tightening sensation around your forehead.
Science does not deal with subjective experience... Well that's too bad because that is all any of us ever have.
There is an angel within the monkey struggling to get free, and this is what the historical crisis is all about.
I can't think of a society on Earth where people don't take drugs that any of us would want anything to do with.
There's something in the Western mind that gets very nervous when you try to talk about the bedrock of ontology.
There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.
When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.
Is man’s civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever?
In the huge mass of evil as it rolls and swells, there is ever some good working toward deliverance and triumph.
It is not honest inquiry that makes anarchy; but it is error, insincerity, half belief and untruth that make it.
Competition of praise inclineth to a reverence of antiquity. For men contend with the living, not with the dead.
And indeed, no man has found his religion until he has found that for which he must sell his goods and his life.
The perfect man uses his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing. It regrets nothing. It receives but does not keep.
Either in conflict with others or in harmony with them, we go through life like a runaway horse, unable to stop.
Mercantile jealousy is excited, and both inflames, and is itself inflamed, by the violence of national animosity.
A just city should favor justice and the just, hate tyranny and injustice, and give them both their just deserts.
Every individual is a unique manifestation of the Whole, as every branch is a particular outreaching of the tree.
The attempted professionalization of serious and systematic thinking has had a disastrous effect upon our culture
All that is best for us comes of itself into our hands-but if we strive to overtake it, it perpetually eludes us.
And this lies in the nature of things: What people are potentially is revealed in actuality by what they produce.
Man's best friend is one who wishes well to the object of his wish for his sake, even if no one is to know of it.
To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.
The purpose of art is to represent the meaning of things. This represents the true reality, not external aspects.
Thus then a single harmony orders the composition of the whole...by the mingling of the most contrary principles.
Not to know of what things one should demand demonstration, and of what one should not, argues want of education.