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I ask you to write this deeply into your souls . . . the materialistic culture . . . is now on the way to its close.
Grateful for his mistakes, man should be the gods, because by overcoming the faults the stronger force is developed.
Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.
To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.
The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.
By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
For love is exultant when it unites equals, but it is triumphant when it makes that which was unequal equal in love.
The crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die.
My tactics were, by God's aid, to employ every means to make it clear what the requirement of Christianity truly is.
The attitude of silent observation is the very foundation of yoga. You see the picture, but you are not the picture.
Language is, without a doubt, the most momentous and at the same time the most mysterious product of the human mind.
I’ll try to be around and about. But if I’m not, then you know that I’m behind your eyelids, and I’ll meet you there
The way you understand and investigate time is by moving inward, into metabolism. The human body is a knot in time.
It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe.
If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their doors?
The end of knowledge is power ... the scope of all speculation is the performing of some action or thing to be done.
A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.
Each of our lives is a part of the lengthy process of the universe gradually waking up and becoming aware of itself.
Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned.
For atheism and polytheism there is no special problem of suffering, nor need there be for every kind of monotheism.
What do you have to do? Pack your bags, Go to the station without them, Catch the train, And leave your self behind.
Faith can be interested in results only, for a truth once recognized as such puts an end to the believer's thinking.
There are two lives, the natural and the spiritual, and we must lose the one before we can participate in the other.
There are 3 rules to follow if you want to change; (1) Start immediately, (2) Do it flamboyantly, (3) No exceptions.
The desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption.
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
You look upon the seasons with expectation and await them: wy not seize the seasonal opportunities and exploit them?
Whether the gentleman is capable or not, he is loved all the same; conversely the petty man is loathed all the same.
There is no art which government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.
What is enquiry into the Truth? It is the firm conviction that the Self is real, and all, other than That, is unreal.
There is no way of making a hedge grow like pruning it. There is no way of making sex interesting like repressing it.
The facile economic and psychological debunking of the theoretical life cannot do away with its irreducible beauties.
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
Those who have been eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, and the arts have all had tendencies toward melancholia.
How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms
If 'bounded by a surface' is the definition of body there cannot be an infinite body either intelligible or sensible.
If some animals are good at hunting and others are suitable for hunting, then the Gods must clearly smile on hunting.
I love looking at famous people. Because of the way they look. Because of the way photography makes them look famous.
At bottom, every state regards another as a gang of robbers who will fall upon it as soon as there is an opportunity.
It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
Moral progress has consisted in the main of protest against cruel customs, and of attempts to enlarge human sympathy.
Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself.
Nine-tenths of the activities of a modern Government are harmful; therefore the worse they are performed, the better.
Berkeley retains the merit of having shown that the existence of matter is capable of being denied without absurdity.
Wisdom delights in water; love delights in hills. Wisdom is stirring; love is quiet. Wisdom is merry; love grows old.
To take what you know for what you know, and what you do not know for what you do not know, that is knowledge indeed.