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Now, with the general decay of religious faith , it is the scientists who must speak ex cathedra, whether they wish to or not.
Le langage est une peau: je frotte mon langage contre l'autre. Language is a skin; I rub my language against another language.
The common trait of all evil is nothing other than egoism... Basically all human evil comes from what we call the selfishness.
The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
There is no benefit so large that malignity will not lessen it; none so narrow that a good interpretation will not enlarge it.
Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.
There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.
Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, who so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility.
The achievement of happiness requires not the satisfaction of our needs but the examination and transformation of those needs.
The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do.
The social consequence of the psychedelic experience is clear thinking -which trickles down as clear speech. Empowered speech.
An interesting thing about drugs is often, when a new drug is discovered, it takes a long time to figure out how do you do it.
Apparently, in the Avesta classical period no one would have dreamed of having a spiritual experience without resort to drugs.
I finally realized that this 'place' that I kept bursting into [on a psychedelic experience] was somebody's idea of a playpen.
Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.
O Time! Time! how it brings forth and devours! And the roaring flood of existence rushes on forever similar, forever changing!
How, without clothes, could we possess the master organ, soul's seat and true pineal gland of the body social--I mean a purse?
Rabbi Zusya said that on the Day of Judgment, God would ask him, not why he had not been Moses, but why he had not been Zusya.
We imagine that waking-life is real and that dream-life is unreal, but there does not seem to be any evidence for this belief.
The 'I think' which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the 'I breathe' which actually does accompany them.
In its broadest term, religion says that there is an unseen order, and that our supreme good lies in rightful relations to it.
It is only in the lonely emergencies of life that our creed is tested: then routine maxims fail, and we fall back on our gods.
Do not let the artificial obliterate the natural; do not let will obliterate destiny; do not let virtue be sacrificed to fame.
There are two ways to slice easily thorugh life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
I pray as follows: May justice reign, may the laws not be broken, may the wise men be poor, and the poor men rich, without sin.
He who cannot see the truth for himself, nor, hearing it from others, store it away in his mind, that man is utterly worthless.
Purpose ... is held to be most closely connected with virtue, and to be a better token of our character than are even our acts.
Life is full of chances and changes, and the most prosperous of men may in the evening of his days meet with great misfortunes.
It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits
There is not a grain of dust, not an atom that can become nothing, yet man believes that death is the annhilation of his being.
To be alone is the fate of all great minds—a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils.
Whatever torch we kindle, and whatever space it may illuminate, our horizon will always remain encircled by the depth of night.
Every satisfaction he attains lays the seeds of some new desire, so that there is no end to the wishes of each individual will.
A man who has not enough originality to think out a new title for his book will be much less capable of giving it new contents.
This, however, is a passing nightmare; in time the earth will become again incapable of supporting life, and peace will return.
Suppose atomic bombs had reduced the population of the world to one brother and sister; should they let the human race die out?
When I was a child . . . Only virtue was prized, virtue at the expense of intellect, health, happiness, and every mundane good.
Mathematics is, I believe, the chief source of the belief in eternal and exact truth, as well as a sensible intelligible world.
Despots prefer the friendship of the dog, who, unjustly mistreated and debased, still loves and serves the man who wronged him.
When you wake up in the morning, you must really wake up totally-physically and mentally. Otherwise, don't bother with the day.
With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow - I have still joy in the midst of all these things.
Do not unto another that you would hot have him do unto you. Thou needest this law alone. It is the foundation of all the rest.
I think philosophy is all about lived experience, which is to say life in the streets, life in a variety of different contexts.
A disciple is a person who has decided that the most important thing in their life is to learn how to do what Jesus said to do.
Understanding is the basis of care. What you would take care of you must first understand, whether it be a petunia or a nation.
The humility that cringes in order that reproof may be escaped or favor obtained is as unchristian as it is profoundly immoral.
Go ahead and believe in God , if you like, but don't imagine that you have been given any grounds for such a belief by science.
Habit may lead us to belief and expectation but not to the knowledge, and still less to the understanding, of lawful relations.