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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.
Love has three kinds of origin, namely: suffering, friendship and love. A human love has a corporal and intellectual origin.
Although you feel tepid, approach with confidence, for the greater your infirmity the more you stand in need of a physician.
Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and you will save his life.
Watch their actions, observe their motives, examine wherein they dwell content; won't you know what kind of person they are?
Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.
In his dealings with the world, the gentleman is not invariably for or against anything. He is on the side of what is moral.
The commander of the forces of a large State may be carried off, but the will of even a common man cannot be taken from him.
Religion is defined as social systems whose participants avow a supernatural agent or agents whose approval is to be sought.
I cannot but bless the memory of Julius Caesar, for the great esteem he expressed for fat men and his aversion to lean ones.
If a lack of empirical foundations is a defect of the theory of logical probability, it is also a defect of deductive logic.
The man who is fortunate in his choice of son-in-law gains a son; the man unfortunate in his choice loses his daughter also.
A nation which thinks that it is belief in God and not good law which makes people honest does not seem to me very advanced.
Those who practice know whether realization is attained or not, just as those who drink water know whether it is hot or cold
The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
The desire to be different from the people we live with is sometimes the result of our rejection- real or imagined- by them.
The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.
If anybody asks me what I have accomplished, I will say all I have accomplished is that I have written a few good sentences.
That which corrodes the souls of the persecuted is the monstrous inner agreement with the prevailing prejudice against them.
To the fantastic mental illness of Rationalism, hard facts are regrettable things, and to talk about them is to create them.
Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
The reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness.
It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value.
The world is like a board with holes in it, and the square men have got into the round holes, and the round into the square.
To write much, and to write rapidly, are empty boasts. The world desires to know what you have done, and not how you did it.
That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.
It is a new road to happiness, if you have strength enough to castigate a little the various impulses that sway you in turn.
A tyrant institutionalises stupidity, but he is the first servant of his own system and the first to be installed within it.
Men in plural […] can experience meaningfulness only because they can talk with and make sense to each other and themselves.
To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.
It is dangerous to abandon one's self to the luxury of grief; it deprives one of courage, and even of the wish for recovery.
He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.
The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become.
The precarious ontological link between Logos and Eros is broken, and scientific rationality emerges as essentially neutral.
Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.
Dhikr (remembrance of Allah) is to the heart as water is to a fish; see what happens to a fish when it is taken out of water
Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
I feel ruefully sure, also, that one must be at least one sort of fool to rush in over ground so well trodden by the angels.
Liberty is not to be found in any form of government; she is in the heart of the free man; he bears her with him everywhere.
A kiss without a moustache, they said then, is like an egg without salt; I will add to it: and it is like Good without Evil.
Man is abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no aim but what he sets himself.
Be quiet! Anyone can spit in my face, and call me a criminal and a prostitute. But no one has the right to judge my remorse.
Criminals together. We're in hell, my little friend, and there's never any mistake there. People are not damned for nothing.
Methodological individualism is the doctrine that psychological states are individuated with respect to their causal powers.
A writer who is in a hurry to be understood today or tomorrow runs the danger of being misunderstood the day after tomorrow.
Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
Knowledge is no longer an immobile solid; it has been liquefied. it is actively moving in all the currents of society itself
As some species die out, forms better adapted to utilize the obstacles against which they struggled in vain come into being.
... the besetting danger is not so much of embracing falsehood for truth, as of mistaking a part of the truth for the whole.
I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make one's flesh creep.