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The aspects of a thing that are most important to us are hidden to us because of their simplicity and familiarity.
There are, indeed, things that cannot be put into words. They make themselves manifest. They are what is mystical.
It is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death.
Management [ Providence ], knowledge, and intention are not the same when ascribed to us and when ascribed to God.
The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
Virtue is increased by the smile of approval; and the love of renown is the greatest incentive to honourable acts.
No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful.
Interface, of the resonant interval as 'where the action is', whether chemical, psychic or social, involves touch.
For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.
The real struggle is not between East and West, or capitalism and communism, but between education and propaganda.
Egos appear by setting themselves apart from other egos.Persons appear byentering into relationwith other persons.
I have a theory of living on the boundary: on the boundary of patriarchy and the boundary of different dimensions.
What matters the party to me? I shall find enough anyhow who unite with me without swearing allegiance to my flag.
Your own efforts "did not bring it to pass," only God-but rejoice if God found a use for your efforts in His work.
The way of truth is like a great road. It is not difficult to know it. The evil is only that men will not seek it.
One of the aims of sexual union is procreation - the creation by reproduction of an image of itself, of the union.
Faith is a footbridge that you don't know will hold you up over the chasm until you're forced to walk out onto it.
Self-realization is a process of permanent auto-creation, an elaboration of the new man at the expense of the old.
The expansion of the whole cosmos was but the shrinkage of all its physical units and of the wavelengths of light.
In appropriate circumstances we are justified in using humans to achieve goals (or the goal of assisting animals).
Diamonds have an image of purity and light. They are given as a pledge of love and worn as a symbol of commitment.
The physicist can never subject an isolated hypothesis to experimental test, but only a whole group of hypotheses.
Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.
The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves.
What a handsome face he had: but if he were naked you would forget he had a face, he is so beautiful in every way.
Lord of Lords, grant us the good whether we pray for it or not, but evil keep from us, even though we pray for it.
I do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them.
Man never legislates, but destinies and accidents, happening in all sorts of ways, legislate in all sorts of ways.
Choose always the way that seems the best, however rough it may be; custom will soon render it easy and agreeable.
I prefer credulity to skepticism and cynicism for there is more promise in almost anything than in nothing at all.
I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen
When we affirm that philosophy begins with wonder , we are affirming in effect that sentiment is prior to reason .
I think that a good Left is a party that always thinks about the future and doesn't care much about our past sins.
In the beginning of time, light drew out matter along with itself into a mass as great as the fabric of the world.
I've never been an optimist, but that's fine because pessimists have the possibility of being agreeably surprised.
The masses are the decisive element, they are the rock on which the final victory of the revolution will be built.
We must never forget that higher knowledge has to do with revering truth and insight and not with revering people.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult
Those who pass their lives in foreign travel find they contract many ties of hospitality, but form no friendships.
The mob that hails the man on horseback, the Caesars and conquering heroes, does not retain its freedoms for long.
We are only geometricians of matter; the Greeks were, first of all, geometricians in the apprenticeship to virtue.
What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement.
The inside must be made entirely calm and quiet and there should reign an upward aspiration - a state of awaiting.
Awareness is ever there. It need not be realized. Open the shutter of the mind, and it will be flooded with light.
What is the worth of a happiness for which you must strive and work? Real happiness is spontaneous and effortless.
Until we can look at fear and accept it as the shadow of personal existence, as persons we are bound to be afraid.
Seeking out causes is a pastime of the mind. There is no duality of cause and effect. Everything is its own cause.
All that happens is the cause of all that happens. Causes are numberless; the idea of a sole cause is an illusion.
Ninety percent of the difficulty in your intellectual life would never have happened if you just had better taste.
Our destiny is to become what we think, to have our thoughts become our bodies and our bodies become our thoughts.