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O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.
We cannot withdraw our cards from the game. Were we as silent and mute as stones, our very passivity would be an act.
There is no love apart from the deeds of love; no potentiality of love other than that which is manifested in loving.
The viable jewels of life remain untouched when man forgets his vocation of searching for the truth of his existence.
The school must be "a genuine form of active community life, instead of a place set apart in which to learn lessons".
Not perfection as a final goal, but the ever-enduring process of perfecting, maturing, refining is the aim of living.
Words, in their primary or immediate signification, stand for nothing but the ideas in the mind of him who uses them.
Materialism ends up denying the existence of any irreducible subjective qualitative states of sentience or awareness.
How can great minds be produced in a country where the test of great minds is agreeing in the opinion of small minds?
Every individual or national degeneration is immediately revealed by a directly proportional degradation in language.
I have procured air [oxygen] ... between five and six times as good as the best common air that I have ever met with.
Orthodoxy, my Lord,: said Bishop Warburton, in a whisper, — orthodoxy is my doxy, — heterodoxy is another man's doxy.
Naming suffering, exalting it, dissecting it into its smallest components – that is doubtless a way to curb mourning.
Is it a misfortune that magnificent California was seized from the lazy Mexicans who did not know what to do with it.
One of the most difficult tasks confronting philosophers is to descend from the world of thought to the actual world.
Our intellectual development in the field of science has outstripped our human development in the field of character.
Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habit.
To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.
The eye with which you see God is the same eye with which God sees you; one in seeing; one in knowing; one in loving.
When his (the good ruler's) task is accomplished and his work done, The people all say, "It happened to us naturally.
A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step and if that step is the right step, it becomes the last step.
The reason why the universe is eternal is that it does not live for itself; it gives life to others as it transforms.
If one regards inflation as an evil, then one has to stop inflating. One has to balance the budget of the government.
Only one thing can conquer war - that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation.
I won't say 'See you tomorrow' because that would be like predicting the future, and I'm pretty sure I can't do that.
A main cause of philosophical disease-an unbalanced diet: one nourishes one's thinking with only one kind of example.
The law does not require a man to cease to be a man, and act without regard to consequences, when he becomes a juror.
The greatest of all crimes are the wars that are carried on by governments, to plunder, enslave, and destroy mankind.
Work before eating, rest after eating. Eat not ravenously, filling the mouth gulp after gulp without breathing space.
The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt.
Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? In heaven's name,Catiline, how long will you abuse ourpatience?
The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.
Friendship is not to be sought for its wages, but because its revenue consists entirely in the love which it implies.
The name of peace is sweet and the thing itself good, but between peace and slavery there is the greatest difference.
Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.
By Hercules! I prefer to err with Plato, whom I know how much you value, than to be right in the company of such men.
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.
Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.
The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete in the urban compound.
Since with electricity we extend our central nervous system globally, instantly interrelating every human experience.
And if there were a devil it would not be one who decided against God, but one who, in eternity, came to no decision.
The relation of feeling toward art and its bringing-forth can be one of production or one of reception and enjoyment.
A giving which gives only its gift, but in the giving holds itself back and withdraws, such a giving we call sending.
Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.
I have a capacity in my soul for taking in God entirely. I am as sure as I live that nothing is so near to me as God.
The shell must be cracked apart if what is in it is to come out, for if you want the kernel you must break the shell.
The human spirit must transcend number and break through multiplicity, and God will break through him; and just as He
It is unnatural in a large field to have only one shaft of wheat, and in the infinite Universe only one living world.
Christians must be Jews. The truth of what we believe depends on the truth of Judaism, depends on the first covenant.