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Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said can be said clearly. Ludwig Wittgenstein
True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.
In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honor, command, power, and glory.
The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.
Of course you cannot free yourself from the laws of nature; but the laws of nervous systems are not the same as the physical laws.
If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more pleasurable it is bound to be.
The medium is the message" because it is the medium that shapes and controls the search and form of human associations and action.
To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control.
Hags live. Women traveling into feminist time/space are creating Hag-ocracy, the place we govern. To govern is to steer, to pilot.
The people are the most important element in a nation; the spirits of the land and grain are the next; the sovereign is the least.
One thing in any case is certain: man is neither the oldest nor the most constant problem that has been posed for human knowledge.
Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.
The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language.
The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements, as well as one's deepest failures is a definite symptom of maturity.
...history has shown that the most terrible crimes against love have been committed in the name of fanatically defended doctrines.
The most telling and profound way of describing the evolution of the universe would undoubtedly be to trace the evolution of love.
Of all the Gods, Love is the best friend of humankind, the helper and healer of all ills that stand in the way of human happiness.
There is a ... matter - much more valuable and divine than natural philosophy . ... On this matter I must speak to you in enigmas.
Well, I see I am not designed to the finding out the Philosophers Stone, I have been so unlucky in my first attempts in chemistry.
The calendar is intolerable to all wisdom, the horror of all astronomy, and a laughing stock from a mathematician's point of view.
Classical buildings endure because they are loved, admired and accepted, and enjoy an innate adaption to human needs and purposes.
We live in an extremely anxious age in which the core of our beliefs has been undermined to a great extent by scientific thinking.
Ultimately, Photography is subversive, not when it frightens, repels, or even stigmatizes, but when it is pensive, when it thinks.
Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
Plato once wanted to punish one of his slaves and asked his nephew to do the actual whipping for he himself did not own his anger.
Our life's a moment and less than a moment, but even this mite nature has mockingly humored with some appearance of a longer span.
To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
No one who accepts the sovereignty of truth can be a foot soldier in a party or movement. He will always find himself out of step.
We might even define the human as a dynamic process produced by a series of identifications and misidentifications with animality.
Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.
It is impossible that the whole of truth should not be present at every time and every place, available for anyone who desires it.
I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
The alphabet will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls. They will trust the written characters and not remember themselves.
What I really need is to get clear out about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge precedes every act.
Believe me, there is no goal, nor a way to reach it. You are the way and the goal, there is nothing else to reach except yourself.
Meet you own self. Be with your own self, listen to it, obey it, cherish it, keep it in mind ceaselessly. You need no other guide.
Your true meaning cannot be grasped or captured by words. You can never be equated with any words, because you are prior to words.
Stop imagining yourself being or doing this or that and the realization that you are the source and heart of all will dawn on you.
There is no second, or higher self to search for. You are the highest self, only give up the false ideas you have about your self.
Ritual is the most primitive reflection of serious thought, a slow deposit, as it were, of people's imaginative insight into life.
They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.
I believe reality is a marvelous joke staged for my edification and amusement and everybody is working very hard to make me happy.
The human imagination, which is our great glory, has grown so powerful that we can barely unleash it on the surface of the planet.
For me, what all these years of psychedelic taking came to was a new model of how reality works, a new model of what the world is.
I really think that the psychedelic realm is the realm of ideas, and that ideas which change the world come first from that place.
Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.
Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.
Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.
The wise man is but a clever infant, spelling letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity.
For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.