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Let whoever can do so deceive me, he will never bring it about that I am nothing, so long as I continue to think I am something.
There is a little gland in the brain in which the soul exercises its functions in a more particular way than in the other parts.
My motto is: walk expropriating and igniting, always leaving behind me howls of moral offenses and smoking trunks of old things.
To dope the racer is as criminal, as sacrilegious, as trying to imitate God; it is stealing from God the privilege of the spark.
Wherever love and compassion are active in life, we can perceive the magic breath of the spirit blowing through the sense world.
What the human being sees, what is poured into his environment, becomes a force in him. In accordance with it, he forms himself.
In the perception of a tree we can distinguish the act of experiencing, or perceiving, from the thing experienced, or perceived.
There in no one more unfortunate than the man who has never been unfortunate. for it has never been in his power to try himself.
Do not grieve over someone who changes all of the sudden. It might be that he has given up acting and returned to his true self.
Our lives are but specks of dust falling through the fingers of time. Like sands of the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.
It is the greatest good for an individual to discuss virtue (aka areté) every day...for the unexamined life is not worth living.
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith.
The minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion.
Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness; I have walked myself into my best thoughts.
I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.
You know that you are. Don't burden yourself with names, just be. Any name or shape you give yourself obscures your real nature.
The legitimate function of the mind is to tell you what is not. But if you want positive knowledge, you must go beyond the mind.
Between the banks of pleasure and pain flows the river of life. If you spend much time on either bank you will miss out on life.
The paperless office is possible, but not by imitating paper. Note that the horseless carriage did not work by imitating horses.
Well, certainly the Voynich Manuscript is the 'limit text' of Western occultism. No one can read it. It is truly an occult book.
The Internet is the global brain, the cyberspacially connected, telepathic, collective domain that we've all been hungering for.
History, call it 15,000 or 25,000 years of duration, is the story of an animal, some kind of complex animal, becoming conscious.
Look at the reputation they gave him. [Giordano] Bruno without the pyre is a whiskey priest laying waste to the maids of Umbria.
The modern majesty consists in work. What a man can do is his greatest ornament, and he always consults his dignity by doing it.
Such is the world. Understand it, despise it, love it; cheerfully hold on thy way through it, with thy eye on highest loadstars!
No country can find eternal peace and comfort where the vote of Judas Iscariot is as good as the vote of the Saviour of mankind.
Piety does not mean that a man should make a sour face about things, and refuse to enjoy in moderation what his Maker has given.
One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
The true is the name of whatever proves itself to be good in the way of belief, and good, too, for definite, assignable reasons.
The thinker philosophizes as the lover loves. Even were the consequences not only useless but harmful, he must obey his impulse.
No human being will ever know the truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even know they had done so.
Truly the gods have not from the beginning revealed all things to mortals, but by long seeking, mortals discover what is better.
By nature a philosopher is not in genius and disposition half so different from a street porter, as a mastiff is from a greyhound
They know how to think. From the Arabs I have learned one thing: if you are led by Authority, that means you are led by a halter.
In the actual state of social relationships, the forms ("formes", Fr.) of politeness are necessary as a subsitute to benevolence.
Where do I begin and end in space? I have relations to the sun and air which are just as vital parts of my existence as my heart.
The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.
Never may a man prone to believe scandal be a despot or a popular leader! Under his guidance, democracy itself will be despotism.
The art of life lies in taking pleasures as they pass, and the keenest pleasures are not intellectual, nor are they always moral.
It is more difficult to organize a peace than to win a war; but the fruits of victory will be lost if the peace is not organized.
The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement.
Our account does not rob the mathematicians of their science... In point of fact they do not need the infinite and do not use it.
The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.
Man is the only animal capable of reasoning, though many others possess the faculty of memory and instruction in common with him.
A man of genius can hardly be sociable, for what dialogues could indeed be so intelligent and entertaining as his own monologues?
Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.
Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.
Hatred which is completely vanquished by love passes into love: and love is thereupon greater than if hatred had not preceded it.
If everything has a cause, then God must have a cause. If there can be anything without a cause, it may just be the world as God.