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Dolphins are social mammals, capable of enjoying their lives. They form close bonds with other members of their group.
There is a growing movement called effective altruism. It's important because it combines both the heart and the head.
There is no humane slaughter requirement for wild fish caught and killed at sea, nor, in most places, for farmed fish.
There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought.
Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.
One mustn't close one's eyes to difficulty and to shortcomings; the more one recognizes them, the less they upset one.
If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.
No man's nature is able to know what is best for the social state of man; or, knowing, always able to do what is best.
Before all it's necessary to look after the Soul, if you want the head and the rest of the body to function correctly.
The tyranny imposed on the soul by anger, or fear, or lust, or pain, or envy, or desire, I generally call 'injustice.'
A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.
Was not this ... what we spoke of as the great advantage of wisdom -- to know what is known and what is unknown to us?
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
Despise all those things which when liberated from the body you will not want; invoke the Gods to become your helpers.
I can doubt everything, except one thing, and that is the very fact that I doubt. Simply put - I think, therefore I am
It is not possible for form to do without matter because it is not separable, nor can matter itself be purged of form.
You can't satisfy everybody; especially if there are those who will be dissatisfied unless not everybody is satisfied.
The trouble with government regulation of the market is that it prohibits capitalistic acts between consenting adults.
There are no chords in modernist architecture, only lines - lines that may come to an end, but that achieve no closure
Men can be divided into 2 groups: one that goes ahead and achieves something, and one that comes after and criticizes.
There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
No man is born wise; but wisdom and virtue require a tutor; though we can easily learn to be vicious without a master.
One does not play Bach without having done scales. But neither does one play a scale merely for the sake of the scale.
We should desire neither the immortality nor the death of any human being, whoever he may be, with whom we have to do.
It is better to make a mistake with full force of your being than to carefully avoid mistakes with a trembling spirit.
A free soul ought not to pursue any study slavishly, for nothing that is learned under compulsion stays with the mind.
Let he who would move the world, first complete an environmental impact assessment and a 90-day public comment period.
Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.
Death cannot explain itself. The earnestness consists precisely in this, that the observer must explain it to himself.
No one may pride himself at being more than an individual, and no one despondently think that he is not an individual.
To hope for a true change of human life without a change of human nature is an irrational and unspiritual proposition.
With which part do you watch? Surely with the mind? That won't do. It is the silent Purusha within who must watch all.
The innermost light, shining peacefully and timelessly in the heart, is the real Guru. All others merely show the way.
You may substitute knowledge for superstition without satisfying the needs that drive people into superstition's arms.
What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.
There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives.
You put two egos together and you've either got a conflict, which is always interesting, or better yet, a love affair.
As a society we cannot seem to make peace with nature. As individuals, it's hard for us to be at peace with ourselves.
It seems to me far more likely that an advanced civilization would communicate inter dimensionally and telepathically.
True and False are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither Truth nor Falsehood.
The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.
All situations in which the interrelationships between extremes are involved are the most interesting and instructive.
The price of apparent happiness and enjoyment is the neglect of the spontaneous active energies of the acting members.
Man is the only animal that contemplates death, and also the only animal that shows any sign of doubt of its finality.
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
The function of ignoring, of inattention, is as vital a factor in mental progress as the function of attention itself.
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
A gentleman makes friends by learning together with others, and he looks to friends to help him cultivate benevolence.