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If people are prepared to eat locally and seasonally, then they probably do pretty well in terms of environmental impact.
All religions are pieced together out of elements which seem so at odds with reason that any intelligence laughs at them.
In each soul, God loves and partly saves the whole world which that soul sums up in an incommunicable and particular way.
Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable, inasmuch as he has the fountain of reason in him not yet regulated.
Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state.
There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who, when danger is pressing in, will not acknowledge the divine power.
To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.
I take it that our state, having been founded and built up on the right lines, is good in the complete sense of the word.
When the wise man opens his mouth, the beauties of his soul present themselves to the view, like the statues in a temple.
Indeed I am inclined to go so far as to say that the one cause for which one may properly make war is the cause of peace.
In a way, all sociologists are akin to Marxists because of their inclination to settle everyone's accounts but their own.
We constantly feel stressed, overwhelmed and guilty.It's our own fault if we're unhappy. It means we made a bad decision.
My father was a man of principle who found his principles confirmed in the unremitting failure which they brought on him.
It is indeed a surprising and fortunate fact that nature can be expressed by relatively low-order mathematical functions.
Ultimately all knowing, from the highest to the lowest, is the result of experience; it arises on the way of experiences.
Intuition is for thinking what observation is for perception. Intuition and observation are the sources of our knowledge.
If humanity is to live in the future in a socially right way, humanity must educate its children in a socially right way.
Why does no one confess his sins? Because he is yet in them. It is for a man who has awoke from sleep to tell his dreams.
Let us ask what is best - not what is customary. Let us love temperance - let us be just - let us refrain from bloodshed.
The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.
Meditation on the chance which led to the meeting of my mother and father is even more salutary than meditation on death.
I may still be a kind of a Marxist but I'm very realistic, I don't have these dreams of revolutionists around the corner.
I believe that we cannot live better than in seeking to become better, nor more agreeably than having a clear conscience.
Impossibility is only a sum of greater unrealised possibles. It veils an advanced stage and a yet unaccomplished journey.
Only the soul that is naked and unashamed, can be pure and innocent , even as Adam was in the primal garden of humanity .
In the light of calm and steady self-awareness, inner energies wake up and work miracles without any effort on your part.
When I look beyond the mind, I see the witness. Beyond the witness, there is infinite intensity of emptiness and silence.
All your desires, whatever they may be, are expressions of your longing for happiness. Basically, you wish yourself well.
Self-remembrance, awareness of 'I am' ripens him powerfully and speedily. Give up all ideas about yourself and simply be.
For me the moment of death will be a moment of jubilation, not of fear. I cried when I was born and I shall die laughing.
Life, carefully examined, is actually a form of allegorical literature with a very tight constructural grid laid over it.
The possibility seems to be that what we call styles, or what we call motifs, are actually categories in the unconscious.
What the psychedelic thing can be seen as, when it's done with plants, as a return to Gaia, an immersion in the feminine.
Freedom is the one purport, wisely aimed at, or unwisely, of all man's struggles, toilings and sufferings, in this earth.
Might and right do differ frightfully from hour to hour, but then centuries to try it in, they are found to be identical.
There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.
Nay, in every epoch of the world, the great event, parent of all others, is it not the arrival of a Thinker in the world?
The first author of speech was God himself, that instructed Adam how to name such creatures as He presented to his sight.
Absurdity is one of the most human things about us: a manifestation of our most advanced and interesting characteristics.
We have the ability now to arrange global economic institutions so that poverty declines to a fraction of what it is now.
Some may find comfort in reflecting that the distinction between an eliminative and an explicative physicalism is unreal.
'Ouch' is not independent of social training. One has only to prick a foreigner to appreciate that it is an English word.
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
Do not struggle. Go with the flow of things, and you will find yourself at one with the mysterious unity of the Universe.
A good man ("un homme de bien", Fr.) never wholly perishes, the best part of his being outlives (or survives) in eternity.
The inhabitants of the earth are of two sorts: Those with brains, but no religion, And those with religion, but no brains.
This-the immediate, everyday, and present experience-is IT, the entire and ultimate point for the existence of a universe.
The sirens sing sotto voce these days, and the young already have enough wax in their ears to pass them by without danger.