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The man of science, the artist, the philosopher are attached to their nations as much as the day-laborer and the merchant.
No book can ever be finished. While working on it we learn just enough to find it immature the moment we turn away from it
If you search everywhere, yet cannot find what you are seeking, it is because what you seek is already in your possession.
Speaking with kindness creates confidence, thinking with kindness creates profoundness, giving with kindness creates love.
The Tao is unpredictable to those that live according to plans. Only those who have no agenda are in harmony with the Tao.
A journey of 1000 miles begins with a single step - Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others.
The sage desires no desire, does not value rare treasures, learns without learning, recovers what people have left behind.
Those who of old were good practicers of Tao did not use it to make people bright, but rather used it to make them simple.
Economic prosperity is not so much a material problem; it is, first of all, an intellectual, spiritual, and moral problem.
There is no western, capitalistic country in which the conditions of the masses have not improved in an unprecedented way.
The productivity of social cooperation surpasses in every respect the sum total of the production of isolated individuals.
The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves.
I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature.
It is disgraceful when the passers-by exclaim, "O ancient house! alas, how unlike is thy present master to thy former one.
Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice!
Violence, whether spiritual or physical, is a quest for identity and the meaningful. The less identity, the more violence.
The products of modern science are not in themselves good or bad; it is the way they are used that determines their value.
There is a real, living unity in our time, as in any other, but it lies submerged under a superficial hubbub of sensation.
When new technologies impose themselves on societies long habituated to older technologies, anxieties of all kinds result.
Montaigne [puts] not self-satisfied understanding but a consciousness astonished at itself at the core of human existence.
There is no stopping place in this life--nor is there ever one for any person, no matter how far along the way one's gone.
A small country cannot contend with a great; the few cannot contend with the many; the weak cannot contend with the strong
There is not one but many silences, and they are an integral part of the strategies that underlie and permeate discourses.
The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.
I am concerned, rather, that there should not be more things dreamt of in my philosophy than there are in heaven or earth.
That strange blend of the commercial traveller, the missionary and the barbarian conqueror, which was the American abroad.
Algebras (jabbre and maqabeleh) are geometric facts which are proved by propositions five and six of Book two of Elements.
Results from a given approach are "facts" as long as the approach fits the group or the tradition that is being addressed.
Surely there will be some nonhuman animals whose lives, by any standards, are more valuable than the lives of some humans.
A universal love is not only psychologically possible; it is the only complete and final way in which we are able to love.
Man only progresses by slowly elaborating from age to age the essence and the totality of a universe deposited within him.
Man the individual consoles himself for his passing with the thought of the offspring or the works which he leaves behind.
I am not enough of a mathematician to be able to judge either the well-foundedness or the limits of relativity in physics.
If it is naturally in you to be a good orator, a notable orator you will be when you have acquired knowledge and practice.
Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.
If someone with the right conduct tries to attain to something that lies outside of it, is his goal not the right conduct.
History has never been dominated by majorities, but only by dedicated minorities who stand unconditionally on their faith.
No society is healthy which tells its members to take no thought of the morrow because the state underwrites their future.
Beauty is assailed from two directions - by the cult of ugliness in the arts, and by the cult of utility in everyday life.
Modernism in architecture went hand in hand with socialist and fascist projects to rid old Europe of its hierarchical past
The great benefit of philosophy, which is also its great weakness, is that all its steps are taken in the spirit of doubt.
Life is singing also in the sand crunching under the slow and heavy steps of the guards, when we know how to listen to it.
When human beings meet together seeking the spirit with unity of purpose then they will also find their way to each other.
Sadness usually results from one of the following causes either when a man does not succeed, or is ashamed of his success.
We are more easily led part by part to an understanding of the whole. -Facilius per partes in cognitionem totius adducimur
One should identify oneself with the universe itself. Everything that is less than the universe is subjected to suffering.
Without the communist oppression, I am absolutely sure I would now be a local stupid professor of philosophy in Ljubljana.
The cure of many diseases remains unknown to the physicians of Hellos (Greece) because they do not study the whole person.
The principle of Yoga is the turning of one or of all powers of our human existence into a means of reaching divine Being.
Pure knowledge is not imparted by another; it comes unmasked. It is the one that is listening: it is your own true nature.