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You can make even a parrot into a learned political economist - all he must learn are the two words "supply" and "demand."
The lies (Western slander) which well-meaning zeal has heaped round this man (Muhammad) are disgraceful to ourselves only.
No conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors.
Enjoying things which are pleasant; that is not the evil; it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.
To know, to get into the truth of anything, is ever a mystic art, of which the best logic's can but babble on the surface.
A sad spectacle. If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly. If they be not inhabited, what a waste of space.
And seeing every man is presumed to do all things in order to his own benefit, no man is a fit Arbitrator in his own cause
The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.
Whoever loses the capability for inner silence, loses contact to himself and soon won't be able to think clearly any more.
Possession, it is true, crowns exertion with rest; but it is only in the illusions of fancy that it has power to charm us.
The greatest discovery of the 20th Century is that our attitude of mind determines our quality of life, not circumstances.
Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture.
A man may not achieve everything he has dreamed, but he will never achieve anything great without having dreamed it first.
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
The baby, assailed by eyes, ears, nose, skin, and entrails at once, feels it all as one great blooming, buzzing confusion.
Men desire to have some share in the management of public affairs chiefly on account of the importance which it gives them.
But though empires, like all the other works of men, have all hitherto proved mortal, yet every empire aims at immortality.
In public, as well as in private expences, great wealth may, perhaps, frequently be admitted as an apology for great folly.
Like the appearance of silver in mother of pearl, the world seems real until the Self, the underlying reality, is realized.
The high-minded man does not bear grudges, for it is not the mark of a great soul to remember injuries, but to forget them.
A good style must, first of all, be clear. It must not be mean or above the dignity of the subject. It must be appropriate.
The greater the length, the more beautiful will the piece be by reason of its size, provided that the whole be perspicuous.
If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.
A reproach can only hurt if it hits the mark. Whoever knows that he does not deserve a reproach can treat it with contempt.
More important than the curriculum is the question of the methods of teaching and the spirit in which the teaching is given
Belief in God and a future life makes it possible to go through life with less of stoic courage than is needed by skeptics.
No Carthaginian denied Moloch, because to do so would have required more courage that was required to face death in battle.
Public opinion is always more tyrannical towards those who obviously fear it than towards those who feel indifferent to it.
There is no difference between someone who eats too little and sees Heaven and someone who drinks too much and sees snakes.
If science could get rid of consciousness, it would have disposed of the only stumbling block to its universal application.
There are three things against which the wise man guards: lust when young, quarrels when strong, and covetousness when old.
A superior man in dealing with the world is not for anything or against anything. He follows righteousness as the standard.
Unify your attention. Do not listen with your ears, but with your mind. Do not listen with your mind but with your essence.
The man of noble mind seeks to achieve the good in others and not their evil. The little-minded man is the reverse of this.
Philosophy is in fact a quest for wisdom based in sophia; that quest for wisdom has everything to do with a love of wisdom.
I don't know of a great artist who did not sacrifice and thereby have to wrestle with the depths of loneliness and sadness.
God has created us and poured love into our hearts so that we may do our best to alleviate the suffering that is around us.
Our relations with others are not external. They enter into our very identity. And that's why people struggle with them so.
There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.
The union Christ had with the Father was the greatest that we can conceive of in this life-if indeed we can conceive of it.
Healing invokes the power of compassion, both for yourself and for others... At this point, the healed may become a healer.
No human testimony can have such force as to prove a miracle, and make it a just foundation for any such system of religion
There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.
I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it out.
Because monks come from the midst of purity, they consider as good and pure what does not arouse desire among other people.
You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.
When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else - we are the busiest people in the world.
Spiritual stagnation ensues when man's environment becomes unpredictable or when his inner life is made wholly predictable.