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Have a purpose in life, and having it, throw into your work such strength of mind and muscle as God has given you.
Corporations are may lesser commonwealths in the bowels of a greater, like worms in the entrails of a natural man.
It is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit.
Someone who cannot stop his outer flow of words will soon be unable to communicate with other human beings at all.
Taken as hypotheses, religious claims do very badly. Yet the striking fact is that this does not worry Christians.
No religion is a true religion that does not make men tingle to their finger tips with a sense of infinite hazard.
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
The person who follows the pursuit of reason unflinchingly toward its end will be atheistic or, at best, agnostic.
3 is a prime, 5 is a prime, and 7 is a prime. Why bother with non-prime numbers when the primes can do everything?
An art, which has an aim to achieve the beauty, is called a philosophy or in the absolute sense it is named wisdom.
Take a deep breath and tell us your deepest, darkest secret, so we can wipe our brow and know that we're not alone.
In Zen, poverty is voluntary, and considered not really as poverty so much as simplicity, freedom, unclutteredness.
To resist change, to try to cling to life, is therefore like holding your breath: if you persist you kill yourself.
For those who possess and can wield arms are in a position to decide whether the constitution is to continue or not
My lectures are published and not published; they will be intelligible to those who heard them, and to none beside.
Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
Life to the great majority is only a constant struggle for mere existence, with the certainty of losing it at last.
The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.
Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.
The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.
We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit. - Octavio Paz The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
Boys and girls should be taught respect for each other's liberty... and that jealousy and possessiveness kill love.
Our individual life is brief, and perhaps the whole life of mankind will be brief if measured in astronomical scale
Zeno was concerned with three problems... These are the problem of the infinitesimal, the infinite, and continuity.
The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does.
Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it. To see it a person only needs to imagine how it could be worse.
Even if I could, I would not exahnge their virtues for my own. And that is why they are intent on learning from me.
Profound music leads us beyond language...to the dark roots of our scream and the celestial heights of our silence.
Nothing is so improving to the temper as the study of the beauties either of poetry, eloquence, music, or painting.
The Crusades - the most signal and most durable monument of human folly that has yet appeared in any age or nation.
Apart from the representational content of an idea there is another component: its force and vivacity, its impetus.
Zazen is the ultimate practice. This is indeed the True Self. The Buddhadharma is not to be sought outside of this.
There is a guilty conscience behind every brazen word and act and behind every manifestation of self-righteousness.
It is startling to see how the oppressed almost invariably shape themselves in the image of their hated oppressors.
Radicalism itself ceases to be radical when absorbed mainly in preserving its control over a society or an economy.
It is through Christianity that Judaism has really conquered the world. Christianity is the masterpiece of Judaism.
As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to mankind. I see no limit to the horizon which opens before him.
For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
Philosophy is by its nature something esoteric, neither made for the mob nor capable of being prepared for the mob.
Certainly he who can digest a second or third fluxion need not, methinks, be squeamish about any point in divinity.
The tide of evolution carries everything before it, thoughts no less than bodies, and persons no less than nations.
Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude itself is, in one sense, overcome.
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
It would hardly be possible to exaggerate man's wretchedness if it were not so easy to overestimate his sensibility
Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race.
Far from being a psychological trait, the spirit of revenge is the principle on which our whole psychology depends.
The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is a more violent world.
The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.
Every man is a priest, even involuntarily; his conduct is an unspoken sermon, which is forever preaching to others.