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There is no ethics in general. There are only-eventually-ethics of processes by which we treat the possibilities of a situation.
Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
Thus every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite.
The virtue as the art consecrates itself constantly to what's difficult to do, and the harder the task, the shinier the success.
That judges of important causes should hold office for life is a questionable thing, for the mind grows old as well as the body.
For often, when one is asleep, there is something in consciousness which declares that what then presents itself is but a dream.
[T]he appropriate form of address between man and man ought to be, not monsieur, sir, but fellow sufferer, compagnon de miseres.
The little honesty that exists among authors is discernible in the unconscionable way they misquote from the writings of others.
All good intellects have repeated, since Bacon's time, that there can be no real knowledge but which is based on observed facts.
The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary.
He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held by his fellows as almost divine.
I shall consider human actions and desires in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes and solids.
Machines deprive us of two things which are certainly important ingredients of human happiness, namely, spontaneity and variety.
There seems scarcely any limit to what could be done in the way of producing a good world, if only men would use science wisely.
The white tails of rabbits, according to some theologians, have a purpose, namely to make it easier for sportsmen to shoot them.
When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others.
For over two thousand years it has been the custom among earnest moralists to decry happiness as something degraded and unworthy
Balance is the perfect state of still water. Let that be our model. It remains quiet within and is not disturbed on the surface.
The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.
Is any one able for one day to apply his strength to virtue? I have not seen the case in which his strength would be sufficient.
Drew Dellinger is one of the most creative, courageous and prophetic poets of his generation. I love his spirit. Don't miss him!
The black church often has reinforced certain self images that are damaging to black peoples' beauty, black peoples' confidence.
The idea of having faith in Jesus has come to be totally isolated from being his apprentice and learning how to do what he said.
When we receive God's gift of life by relying on Christ, we find that God comes to act with us as we rely on him in our actions.
If ... the past may be no Rule for the future, all Experience becomes useless and can give rise to no Inferences or Conclusions.
The supposition that the future resembles the past, is not founded on arguments of any kind, but is derived entirely from habit.
Coition is a slight attack of apoplexy. For man gushes forth from man, and is separated by being torn apart with a kind of blow.
When some one boasted that at the Pythian games he had vanquished men, Diogenes replied, "Nay, I defeat men, you defeat slaves."
To start from the self and try to understand all things is delusion. To let the self be awakened by all things is enlightenment.
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
The burning conviction that we have a holy duty toward others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft.
It is a perplexing and unpleasant truth that when men already have "something worth fighting for,they do not feel like fighting.
Faith comes to intelligence as a light that overflows it with joy and inspires it with a certitude that does away with question.
Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.
As a world view, Darwinism cannot of course be refuted, since Faith is, always has been, and always will be, stronger than facts
By listening to certain words as a child listens to the sea in a seashell, a word dreamer hears the murmur of a world of dreams.
The most ingenious men are now agreed, that [universities] are only nurseries of prejudice, corruption, barbarism, and pedantry.
Profound skepticism is favorable to conventions, because it doubts that the criticism of conventions is any truer than they are.
I was raised in Brooklyn and in Baltimore. My father was a bookkeeper. When I was 36 years old, my mother told me I was adopted.
Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.
The more a man loves, the more he suffers. The sum of possible grief for each soul is in proportion to its degree of perfection.
There is no repose for the mind except in the absolute; for feeling, except in the infinite; for the soul, except in the divine.
There is no origin for the idea of an afterlife, save the conclusion which the savage draws from the notion suggested by dreams.
Verily, I constantly renew my Islam until this very day, as up to now, I do not consider myself to have ever been a good Muslim.
No love that a man has will only give him pleasure in return- he shall also suffer pain because of it, except for love of Allah.
If education is to develop human nature so that it may attain the object of its being, it must involve the exercise of judgment.
***Three Conditions of Happiness*** If you have work to do If you have someone you love If You have hope Then You are Happy now!
Life may be seen through many windows, none of them necessarily clear or opaque, less or more distorting than any of the others.
Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremonial, all conventional acts.
Anti-intellectualism has spawned an irrelevant gospel. Today, we share the gospel primarily as a means of addressing felt needs.