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It is more blessed to give than to receive, but then it is also more blessed to be able to do without than to have to have.
In a mathematical proposition, for example, the objectivity is given, but therefore its truth is also an indifferent truth.
Is it true that existence consists only in the action of energy? Or is it not rather that energy is an output of Existence?
What kind of Yoga do you want to practice, the Yoga of getting or the Yoga of giving?... One enslaves, the other liberates.
Truth gives no advantage. It gives no higher status, no power over others; all you get is truth and freedom from the false.
When I see I am nothing, that is wisdom. When I see I am everything, that is love. My life is a movement between these two.
Telling computer guys that they need to have permission to quote things is like having to tell little children about Death.
What people notice about [when they are on] LSD is either what's right or wrong with themselves or how freaky the world is.
It was the fall into history that enslaved us to the labor cycle, to the agricultural cycle. And notice how fiendish it is.
Human populations that do not have contact with the psychedelic tremendum are neurotic because they are male ego dominated.
Science works its miracles by turning its enterprise into a kind of parlor game confined to the category matter and energy.
Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.
All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you.
Providence has given to the French the empire of the land, to the English that of the sea, to the Germans that of--the air!
The highest ensign that men ever met and embraced under, the Cross itself, had no meaning save an accidental extrinsic one.
The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
The insignificant, the empty, is usually the loud; and after the manner of a drum, is louder even because of its emptiness.
As there is no danger of our becoming, any of us, Mahometans (i.e. Muslim), I mean to say all the good of him I justly can.
Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad... but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Power as is really divided, and as dangerously to all purposes, by sharing with another an Indirect Power, as a Direct one.
All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.
Prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
If I thought that everything I did was determined by my circumstancse and my psychological condition, I woudl feel trapped.
The scientist is indistinguishable from the common man in his sense of evidence, except that the scientist is more careful.
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
Far from being antecedent principles that animate the process, law, language, truth are but abstract names for its results.
There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
Nothing reveals character more than self-sacrifice. So the highest knowledge we have of God is through the gift of His Son.
The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world.
Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
The true man of the past waited upon Heaven when dealing with people and did not wait upon people when dealing with Heaven.
Goods can serve many other purposes besides purchasing money, but money can serve no other purpose besides purchasing goods.
Masters are always and everywhere in a sort of tacit, but constant and uniform combination, not to raise the wages of labor.
All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.
It is not easy for a person to do any great harm when his tenure of office is short, whereas long possession begets tyranny.
Aristocracy is that form of government in which education and discipline are qualifications for suffrage and office holding.
It will contribute towards one's object, who wishes to acquire a facility in the gaining of knowledge, to doubt judiciously.
...The entire preoccupation of the physicist is with things that contain within themselves a principle of movement and rest.
Happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace.
Of the irrational part of the soul again one division appears to be common to all living things, and of a vegetative nature.
Life is a language in which certain truths are conveyed to us; if we could learn them in some other way, we should not live.
Love is pleasure accompanied by the idea of an external cause, and hatred pain accompanied by the idea of an external cause.
He who has a true idea, knows at that same time that he has a true idea, nor can he doubt concerning the truth of the thing.
Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.
Total surrender to the demands of the human spirit: be attentive, be intelligent, be reasonable, be responsible, be in love.
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.
The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
The method of "postulating" what we want has many advantages; they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil.
Frege has the merit of ... finding a third assertion by recognising the world of logic which is neither mental nor physical.