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Dostoevsky - is not a realist as an artist, he is an experimentator, a creator of an experimential metaphysics of human nature.
To achieve progress and development it is necessary to bring about co-ordination between liberty and security through Devotion.
Faith as the state of being ultimately concerned implies love, namely, the desire and urge toward the reunion of the seperated.
Wounds and hardships provoke our courage, and when our fortunes are at the lowest, our wits and minds are commonly at the best.
It is better to be wise, and not to seem so, than to seem wise, and not be so; yet men, for the most part, desire the contrary.
When you swear, swear seriously and solemnly, but at the same time with a smile, for a smile is the twin sister of seriousness.
I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
So the nature required to make a really noble Guardian of our commonwealth will be swift and strong, spirited, and philosophic.
There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them.
There can be no good character in civil government if there is none in the people. You cannot make a good omelet with bad eggs.
To be fearless in the Lord does not require us to be great and powerful men, but only to believe in the great and powerful God.
Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was often-times filled with your tears.
Few look for truth; many prowl about for a reputation of profundity by arrogantly challenging whichever arguments are the best.
In the matter of a difficult question it is more likely that the truth should have been discovered by the few than by the many.
The modern state does not comprehend how anyone can be guided by something other than itself. In its eyes pluralism is treason.
If I had to lay bets, my bet would be that everything is going to go to hell, but, you know, what else have we got except hope?
The sociability of artists is a paradoxical and precarious thing, and ceases the instant they begin their actual artistic work.
Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.
A writer who says that there are no truths, or that all truth is ‘merely relative,’ is asking you not to believe him. So don’t.
One can ascend to a higher development only by bringing rhythm and repetition into one's life. Rhythm holds sway in all nature.
Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life.
What view is one likely to take of the state of a person's mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
Philosophy alone makes the mind invincible, and places us out of the reach of fortune, so that all her arrows fall short of us.
Not a soul takes thought how well he may live- only how long: yet a good life might be everybody's, a long one can be nobody's.
Nothing is more disgraceful than that an old man should have nothing to show to prove that he has lived long, except his years.
Let us fight the battle-retreat from the things that attract us and rouse ourselves to meet the things that actually attack us.
The first petition that we are to make to Almighty God is for a good conscience, the next for health of mind, and then of body.
Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
The difference between science and religion is that the former wishes to get rid of mysteries whereas the latter worships them.
A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.
A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines.
Culture is an instrument wielded by teachers to manufacture teachers, who, in their turn, will manufacture still more teachers.
The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.
This is the miracle of life: that each person who heeds him or herself knows what no scientist can ever know: who he or she is.
A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.
Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy!
The grand result of schooling is a mind with just vision to discern, with free force to do: the grand schoolmaster is Practice.
Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soars or flutters and wobbles.
The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is already a treason and deception.
Is there no God, then, but at best an absentee God, sitting idle, ever since the first Sabbath, at the outside of his Universe?
Our argument is not flatly circular, but something like it. It has the form, figuratively speaking, of a closed curve in space.
Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
True is the name for whatever idea starts the verification process, useful is the name for its completed function in experience
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
As a rule reading fiction is as hard to me as trying to hit a target by hurling feathers at it. I need resistance to celebrate!
Reason is a tool to help us better understand and defend our faith; as Anselm put it, ours is a faith that seeks understanding.
Running around accusing others is not as good as laughing. And enjoying a good laugh is not as good as going along with things.
I despise people who depend on these things [heroin and cocaine]. If you really want a mind-altering experience, look at a tree.
The realization of justice is, in the actual state of things, a matter of life or death for society and for civilisation itself.