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Personal purity isn’t really the issue. Not supporting animal abuse – and persuading others not to support it – is.
The furnace of affliction refines us from earthly drossiness, and softens us for the impression of God's own stamp.
By virtue of Creation, and still more the Incarnation, nothing here below is profane for those who know how to see.
No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
You ought not to heal the body without the soul, for this is the great error of our day in treating the human body.
Even in reaching for the beautiful there is beauty, and also in suffering whatever it is that one suffers en route.
Just as things in a picture, when viewed from a distance, appear to be all in one and the same condition and alike.
All religions segregate also...every religion asserts an order of truth and every other order is regarded as a lie.
The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.
Justice in holdings is historical; it depends upon what actually has happened. We shall return to this point later.
The history of thought, and therefore all history, is the re-enactment of past thought in the historian's own mind.
The art establishment has turned away from the old curriculum which puts beauty and craft at the top of the agenda.
Private property is one of the best institutions which has ever evolved, to protect us from the bullying of others.
Sometimes the intention is to shock us. But what is shocking first time around is boring and vacuous when repeated.
Wonder and awe are the diet of the artist and without them the world would be far less meaningful to us than it is.
America has this wonderful ability to recover from its own mistakes, which is why it's so hugely superior to China.
Before a revolution happens, it is perceived as impossible; after it happens, it is seen as having been inevitable.
Freedom can't be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
When God has once begun to throw down the prosperous, He overthrows them altogether: such is the end of the mighty.
A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.
My friend...care for your psyche...know thyself, for once we know ourselves, we may learn how to care for ourselves
In every sort of danger there are various ways of winning through, if one is ready to do and say anything whatever.
There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.
To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going on one's knees and thanking him.
Affliction is able to drown out every earthly voice. . . but the voice of eternity within a person it cannot drown.
While doing sadhana you must quieten your mind and keep awake the Purusha consciousness behind all your activities.
Suffering is due entirely to clinging or resisting. It is a sign of our unwillingness to move on, to flow with life
The world is not made of anti-mu mesons, quarks, and photons, and electromagnetic fields. Reality is made of words.
You may miss the end of the world, but you definitely are going to have a front row seat for the end of your world.
And psychedelics now, as we de-condition ourselves from the post-medieval world, they are present to hand as tools.
I should say sincerity, a deep, great, genuine sincerity, is the first characteristic of all men in any way heroic.
There is in man a higher than love of happiness; he can do without happiness, and instead thereof find blessedness.
Wisdom, properly so called, is nothing else but this: the perfect knowledge of the truth in all matters whatsoever.
Ignorance of the law is no good excuse, where every man is bound to take notice of the laws to which he is subject.
That wee have of Geometry, which is the mother of all Naturall Science, wee are not indebted for it to the Schools.
The beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself.
It is astonishing how many mental operations we can explain when we have once grasped the principles of association
Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
To feel that life is meaningless unless “I” can be permanent is like having fallen desperately in love with an inch.
...the habitual dualist's solution to the problem of dualism: to solve the dilemma by chopping off one of the horns.
The source from which existing things derive their existence is also that to which they return at their destruction.
We weed out the darnel from the corn and the unfit in war, but do not excuse evil men from the service of the state.
We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also.
To be angry is easy. But to be angry with the right man at the right time and in the right manner, that is not easy.
A courageous person is one who faces fearful things as he ought and as reason directs for the sake of what is noble.
All our wanting comes from needs, thus we continiously suffer. The intellect teaches free will, free from suffering.
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
Life is supposed to be a series of peaks and valleys. The secret is to keep the valleys from becoming Grand Canyons.