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Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate.
You ask a philosopher a question and after he or she has talked for a bit, you don't understand your question any more.
Everyone, no doubt, remains first and foremost a man of his own country and continues to draw from it his motive force.
You may be sure, dear Crito, that inaccurate language is not only in itself a mistake: it implants evil in men's souls.
Bless us, divine number, who generated gods and men. Number contains the root and source of eternally flowing creation.
Most [people] see education only as the means by which a person is transported from one economic plane to a higher one.
I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing.
In the Bible the ignorant may learn all requisite knowledge, and the most knowing may learn to discern their ignorance.
It is important that we discover an educational method where people learn to learn and go on learning their whole lives
Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.
It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.
Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison.
By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.
One ought not to return injustice, nor do evil to anybody in the world, no matter what one may have suffered from them.
The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.
It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.
The more people who believe something, the more apt it is to be wrong. The person who's right often has to stand alone.
It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.
Words can bring you only up to their own limit; to go beyond, you must abandon them. Remain as the silent witness only.
Laugh with people laughing, cry with people crying, but don't fall into the river of world illusion. Stay on the banks.
All is a play in consciousness. All divisions are illusory. You can know the false only. The true you must yourself be.
The fairytale is irresponsible; it is frankly imaginary, and its purpose is to gratify wishes, as a dream doth flatter.
Culture is a simplification and a lie. It's the currency by which fools navigate the world. Smart people get beyond it.
I believe that great weirdness stalks the universe. That's not the issue with me, but it is not tacky. It is not tacky.
The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.
There is but one thing without honor, smitten with eternal barrenness, inability to do or to be,-insincerity, unbelief.
A judicious man looks at Statistics, not to "get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted 'on him".
In an oppressive society if a group stands up to take care of the lambs, it automatically stands up against the wolves.
I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look forward with the work.
We and God have business with each other, and in opening ourselves to God's influence our deepest destiny is fulfilled.
Our colleges ought to have lit up in us a lasting relish for a better kind of man, a loss of appetite for mediocrities.
There is but one unconditional commandment ... to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
If you have grasped the purpose of life there is no point in trying to make life into something it is not or cannot be.
Our normal sense of the person as a lonely island of consciousness, is a dramatic illusion based on theological imagery.
Psycho-galvonic experiments show clearly that every emotion or thought is always connected with some electrical current.
Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts.
I am not a conservative — neo or paleo. Conservatism is a respectable outlook... I just do not happen to be that animal.
Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.
The perversions are as follows: of royalty, tyranny; of aristocracy, oligarchy; of constitutional government, democracy.
In the blessings as well as in the ills of life, less depends upon what befalls us than upon the way in which it is met.
A man of business will often deceive you without the slightest scruple, but he will absolutely refuse to commit a theft.
The man who goes up in a balloon does not feel as if he were ascending; he only sees the earth sinking deeper below him.
I have tried sedulously not to laugh at the acts of man, nor to lament them, nor to detest them, but to understand them.
It is sure that those are most desirous of honour or glory who cry out loudest of its abuse and the vanity of the world.
The greater emotion with which we conceive a loved object to be affected toward us, the greater will be our complacency.
Contemporary moral philosophy has found an original way of being boring, which is by not discussing moral issues at all.
The best practical advice I can give to the present generation is to practice the virtue which the Christians call love.