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Those who grieve find comfort in weeping and in arousing their sorrow until the body is too tired to bear the inner emotions.
The being which has absolute existence, which has never been and will never be without existence, is not in need of an agent.
If a man cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of any feeling at all.
Nothing is more praiseworthy, nothing more suited to a great and illustrious man than placability and a merciful disposition.
For what people have always sought is equality before the law. For rights that were not open to all alike would be no rights.
Hmm... That's like telling you about the cold of space, or terror of midnight. Sithis is all those things. He is... the Void.
Sex should be a perfect balance of pain and pleasure. Without that symmetry, sex becomes a routine rather than an indulgence.
Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts.
Violence is the quest for identity. When identity disappears with technological innovation, violence is the natural recourse.
To say that a body or its gravitational field 'bends in space' in its vicinity is the discuss visual space in acoustic terms.
Every person born in this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.
By exhaustively examining one's own mind,one may understand his nature.One who understands his own nature understands Heaven.
In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.
I do not believe there is anything useful which men can know with exactitude that they cannot know by arithmetic and algebra.
If it is true that there is always more than one way of construing a text, it is not true that all interpretations are equal.
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
The Hindu religions gave me the impression of a vast well into which one plunges in order to grasp the reflection of the sun.
The Dance, of all the arts, is the one that most influences the soul. Dancing is divine in its nature and is the gift of God.
The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.
Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.
He is unworthy of the name of man who is ignorant of the fact that the diagonal of a square is incommensurable with its side.
To abjure the notion of the truly human is to abjure the attempt to divinize the self as a replacement for a divinized world.
God may rationally be supposed to have framed so great and admirable an automaton as the world for special ends and purposes.
Creativity is not enough... the skill of the true artist is to show the real in the light of the ideal and so transfigure it.
Integrity is the key to understanding legal practice. Law's empire is defined by attitude, not territory or power or process.
For every one step that you take in the pursuit of higher knowledge, take three steps in the perfection of your own character
You can get an idea of human nature only when you can see the relationship of the individual human being to the whole cosmos.
A consciousness of wrongdoing is the first step to salvation...you have to catch yourself doing it before you can correct it.
It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and - even more surprising - it takes the whole of life to learn how to die.
To lose a friend is the greatest of all evils, but endeavour rather to rejoice that you possessed him than to mourn his loss.
Let us cherish and love old age; for it is full of pleasure, if you know how to use it. The best morsel is reserved for last.
It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
If wisdom were offered me with this restriction, that I should keep it close and not communicate it, I would refuse the gift.
Principles are like seeds; they are little things which do much good, if the mind that receives them has the right attitudes.
The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.
I agree with Sophocles: the greatest luck is not to have been born - but, as the joke goes on, very few people succeed in it.
Vain indeed is all overweening pride in the conquest even of the entire universe if one has not conquered one's own passions.
All that is born and destroyed is reborn in the sweep of the ages; Life like a decimal ever recurring repeats the old figure.
What we need to change is our minds, that's the part that's doing us dirt and dragging us under. How can we change our minds.
What history is, essentially, is a careening, out-of-control effort to find our way back to this state of primordial balance.
I think there is a global commonality of understanding coming into being. And it is not necessarily fostered by institutions.
When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
One is weary of hearing about the omnipotence of money. I will say rather that, for a genuine man, it is not evil to be poor.
All work of man is as the swimmer's: a vast ocean threatens to devour him; if he front it not bravely, it will keep its word.
Language is called the garment of thought: however, it should rather be, language is the flesh-garment, the body, of thought.
To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.
If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and author-craft are of small amount to that.
Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a taxing machine, to the contented a machine for securing property.
Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.
To understand this for sense it is not required that a man should be a geometrician or a logician, but that he should be mad.