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Many who have learned from Hesiod the countless names of gods and monsters never understand that night and day are one
History is a child building a sand-castle by the sea, and that child is the whole majesty of man's power in the world.
A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.
It is the function of parents to see that their children habitually experience the true consequences of their conduct.
Life and human society are the chief concern of Confucianism and, through it, the chief concern of the Chinese people.
Love is the grounding of our existence as humans and is the basic emotioning in our systemic identity as human beings.
He who influences the thought of his times, influences all the times that follow. He has made his impress on eternity.
Together we have come to realize that for most men the right to learn is curtailed by the obligation to attend school.
The proper thing to do is to admit that hell is real and to allow our feelings of discomfort to motivate us to action.
In Les Mots I explain the origin of my madness, of my neurosis. This analysis may help the young who dream of writing.
[I]n principle and in practice, in a right track and in a wrong one, the rarest of all human qualities is consistency.
Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.
The ne plus ultra of wickedness ... is embodied in what is commonly presented to mankind as the creed of Christianity.
When the land is cultivated entirely by the spade and no horses are kept, a cow is kept for every three acres of land.
If the human intellect functions, it is actually in order to solve the problems which the man's inner destiny sets it.
To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. This is the sport, the luxury, special to the intellectual man.
The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent.
The task of universal pragmatics is to identify and reconstruct universal conditions of possible mutual understanding.
When commercial capital occupies a position of unquestioned ascendancy, it everywhere constitutes a system of plunder.
All our inventions have endowed material forces with intellectual life, and degraded human life into a material force.
If you know that things are bound to happen whatever you do, then you may feel free to give up the fight against them.
I personally call the type of government which can be removed without violence 'democracy,' and the other, 'tyranny.'.
There is no history of mankind, there is only an indefinite number of histories of all kinds of aspects of human life.
Have patience. Wait until the mud settles and the water is clear. Remain unmoving until right action arises by itself.
What people loathe the most is to be orphaned, desolate, unworthy. But this is what princes and kings call themselves.
Become totally empty Quiet the restlessness of the mind Only then will you witness everything unfolding from emptiness
The world is a sacred vessel that cannot be changed. He who changes it will destroy it. He who seizes it will lose it.
The Eternal generates the One. The One generates the Two. The Two generates the Three. The Three generates all things.
Great indeed is the sublimity of the creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.
{The cleansing of spiritual contamination} is accomplished by offering one's talent, resources, and life to the world.
What economic calculation requires is a monetary system whose functioning is not sabotaged by government interference.
The masses do not like those who surpass them in any regard. The average man envies and hates those who are different.
The uncouth hordes of common men are not fit to recognize duly the merits of those who eclipse their own wretchedness.
To convince someone of the truth, it is not enough to state it, but rather one must find the path from error to truth.
If there were a verb meaning "to believe falsely," it would not have any significant first person, present indicative.
Nothing contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than the change of times and the vicissitudes of fortune.
That is probable which for the most part usually comes to pass, or which is a part of the ordinary beliefs of mankind.
It is virtue itself that produces and sustains friendship, not without virtue can friendship by any possibility exist.
Virtue and decency are so nearly related that it is difficult to separate them from each other but in our imagination.
Nature ordains that a man should wish the good of every man, whoever he may be, for this very reason that he is a man.
Were floods of tears to be unloosed In tribute to my grief, The doves of Noah ne'er had roost Nor found an olive-leaf.
Television is teaching all the time. Does more educating than the schools and all the institutions of higher learning.
Today it is not the classroom nor the classics which are the repositories of models of eloquence, but the ad agencies.
One matter Englishmen don't think in the least funny is their happy consciousness of possessing a deep sense of humor.
When a profession is protected by academic freedom and tenure, it tends to turn inward. To a large extent that's good.
So long as you "have" yourself, have yourself as an object, your experience of man is only as of a thing among things.
The man of conservative temperament believes that a known good is not lightly to be surrendered for an unknown better.
it is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime
Unbeliever is he who follows predestination even if he be Muslim, Faithful is he, if he himself is the Divine Destiny.
Humility bids us to take ourselves as we are; we do not have to be cosmically significant to be genuinely significant.