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The constitution of the United States declares that "no State shall pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts."
I have always been of the opinion that unpopularity earned by doing what is right is not unpopularity at all, but glory.
Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.
Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.
Certain souls may seem harsh to others, but it is just a way, beknownst only to them, of caring and feeling more deeply.
In television, images are projected at you. You are the screen. The images wrap around you. You are the vanishing point.
To see a man slip on a banana skin is to see a rationally structured system suddenly translated into a whirling machine.
Sentimentality, like pornography, is fragmented emotion; a natural consequence of a high visual gradient in any culture.
Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments.
Wisdom consists in doing the next think you have to do, doing it with your whole heart, and finding delight in doing it.
I will be silent and will hear what God will say in me...If God wishes to speak to me, let him enter. I will not go out.
So I like life and I like righteousness; if I cannot keep the two together, I will let life go and choose righteousness.
That which takes us nearer to the Almighty (Sat) is truth. Truth needs no external support to sustain or promote itself.
The vitality that can stand the abyss of meaninglessness is aware of a hidden meaning within the destruction of meaning.
What one generation finds ridiculous, the next accepts; and the third shudders when it looks back on what the first did.
In most of the world, it is accepted that if animals are to be killed for food, they should be killed without suffering.
You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.
Each elect soul ... possesses God directly and finds in that unique possession the fulfillment of his own individuality.
Of all the things of a man's soul which he has within him, justice is the greatest good and injustice the greatest evil.
Lust is inseparably accompanied with the troubling of all order, with impudence, unseemliness, sloth, and dissoluteness.
May I deem the wise man rich, and may I have such a portion of gold as none but a prudent man can either bear or employ.
It's the familiar love-hate syndrome of seduction: "I don't really care what it is I say, I care only that you like it."
Last Vegas is a counterfeit version of the New Jerusalem. And it shares something of the glorious reality that it mocks.
What I was really saying in 'The Examined Life' was that I was no longer as hardcore a libertarian as I had been before.
What is necessary to keep providing good care to nature has completely fallen into ignorance during the materialism era.
Where the realm of freedom of thought and action begin, the determination of individuals according to generic laws ends.
It really is a nice theory. The only defect I think it has is probably common to all philosophical theories. It's wrong.
Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is to be expecting evil before it comes.
Virtue is that perfect good, which is the complement of a happy life; the only immortal thing that belongs to mortality.
Love feels like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures.
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
I will not yield to any man contrary to what is right, for fear of death, even if I should die at once for not yielding.
Busyness, keeping up with others, hustling hither and yon, makes it almost impossible for an individual to form a heart.
The presence of irony does not necessarily mean that the earnestness is excluded. Only assistant professors assume that.
Trust the divine power, and she will free the godlike elements in you and shape all into an expression of divine nature.
The immediate future of man lies in the imagination and in seeking the dimension where the imagination can be expressed.
Capitalism is not a human being. Capitalism is a Moloch, a god, a god of bloody sacrifice that sees human beings as ants
In a way, this is a definition of shamanism. A shaman is a person who by some means has gotten out of their own culture.
We are like coral animals in a vast reef of excreted technological material that is wired for solid state data transfer.
Ecstasy is not simply joy. Ecstasy is an emotion of great complexity that hovers almost on the edge of terror sometimes.
Over the times thou hast no power. . . . Solely over one man thou hast quite absolute power. Him redeem and make honest.
The Christian must be consumed by the conviction of the infinite beauty of holiness and the infinite damnability of sin.
To say God spake or appeared as he is in his own nature, is to deny his Infiniteness, Invisibility, Incomprehensibility.
Happiness is so nonsynonymous with joy or pleasure that it is not infrequently sought and felt in grief and deprivation.
Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished; the others can only be hurt.
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can't tolerate.
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being.
The Ethiopians say that their gods are snub-nosed and black the Thracians that theirs have light blue eyes and red hair.