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When people do not ignore what they should ignore, but ignore what they should not ignore, this is known as ignorance.
If there is anything worth fearing in the world, it is living in such a way that gives one cause for regret in the end.
I have no great faith in political arithmetic, and I mean not to warrant the exactness of either of these computations.
A Literary Society is the most proper form for the introduction of our Order into any state where we are yet strangers.
What would have to occur or to have occurred to constitute for you a disproof of the love of, or the existence of, God?
Hippodamus, son of Euryphon, a native of Miletus, invented the art of planning and laid out the street plan of Piraeus.
We have divided the Virtues of the Soul into two groups, the Virtues of the Character and the Virtues of the Intellect.
This world is inescapably linked to the motions of the worlds above. All power in this world is ruled by these options.
The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection are that a thing is your own and that it is your only one.
Now it is evident that the form of government is best in which every man, whoever he is, can act best and live happily.
To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.
Happiness, then, is found to be something perfect and self-sufficient, being the end to which our actions are directed.
Life is full of troubles and vexations, that one must either rise above it by means of corrected thoughts, or leave it.
If God made this world, then i would not want to be the God. It is full of misery and distress that it breaks my heart.
Do not shorten the morning by getting up late; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred.
Empirical sciences prosecuted purely for their own sake, and without philosophic tendency are like a face without eyes.
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts - the less you know the hotter you get.
The best life is the one in which the creative impulses play the largest part and the possessive impulses the smallest.
Drunkeness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.
The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
Historically, it is quite doubtful whether Christ ever existed at all, and if He did we do not know anything about Him.
If the Church is not now as bad as the Soviet Government, that is due to the influence of those who attacked the Church
I have throughout been curious about how much we can be said to know and with what degree of certainty or doubtfulness.
It is not my prayer and humility that you cause things to go as you wish, but by acquiring a knowledge of natural laws.
The Axiom of Choice is necessary to select a set from an infinite number of socks, but not an infinite number of shoes.
I am compelled to fear that science will be used to promote the power of dominant groups rather than to make men happy.
A man's style should be like his dress. It should be as unobtrusive and should attract as little attention as possible.
The punishment of death is the war of a nation against a citizen whose destruction it judges to be necessary or useful.
To know that one knows what one knows, and to know that one doesn't know what one doesn't know, there lies true wisdom.
If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?
Excessive (population) growth may reduce output per worker, repress levels of living for the masses and engender strife
In a State, pecuniary gain is not to be considered to be prosperity, but its prosperity will be found in righteousness.
The person who is not strong enough gives up at the halfway point - but you are limiting yourself before even starting.
If I hold up one corner of a square and the student cannot workout the other three for himself, I won't go any further.
A person of character takes as much trouble to discover what is right as the lesser men take to discover what will pay.
Throw out the fun-killers that you carry about with yourselves all the time. Three of them are lust, greed, and hatred.
The most important thing in your life is not what you do; it's who you become. That's what you will take into eternity.
Religions have depended on the relative isolation and ignorance of their flocks, forever and this is all breaking down.
The goal of society in general is to succeed in the world, whereas the goal of enlightenment is to transcend beyond it.
From causes which appear similar, we expect similar effects. This is the sum total of all our experimental conclusions.
In a vain man, the smallest spark may kindle into the greatest flame, because the materials are always prepared for it.
Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.
Poverty in a democracy is as much to be preferred to what is called prosperity under despots, as freedom is to slavery.
On being asked by someone how he could become famous, Diogenes responded: 'By worrying as little as possible about fame
If appearances are deceitful, then they do not deserve any confidence when they assert what appears to them to be true.
There is no beginning to practice nor end to enlightenment; There is no beginning to enlightenment nor end to practice.
When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.
A soul that is reluctant to share does not as a rule have much of its own. Miserliness is here a symptom of meagerness.
Gnostic politics is self-defeating in so far as its disregard for the structure of reality leads to continuous warfare.