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Music imitates (represents) the passions or states of the soul, such as gentleness, anger, courage, temperance, and their opposites.
In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.
It is true, indeed, that the account Plato gives in 'Timaeus' is different from what he says in his so-called 'unwritten teachings.'
There is no such thing as committing adultery with the right woman, at the right time, and in the right way, for it is simply WRONG.
For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.
Persuasion is clearly a sort of demonstration, since we are most fully persuaded when we consider a thing to have been demonstrated.
The less one, as a result of objective or subjective conditions, has to come into contact with people, the better off one is for it.
The eternal wisdom of God ... has shown itself forth in all things, but chiefly in the mind of man, and most of all in Jesus Christ.
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
There was a law in Connecticut - I believe it is still formally unrepealed - making it illegal for a man to kiss his wife on Sunday.
Every housemaid expects at least once a week as much excitement as would have lasted a Jane Austen heroine throughout a whole novel.
What the great learning teaches, is to illustrate illustrious virtue; to renovate the people; and to rest in the highest excellence.
You've got to be a thermostat rather than a thermometer. A thermostat shapes the climate of opinion; a thermometer just reflects it.
If you are always trying to do something for a cause bigger than you - connected with serving others - then it is hard to be guilty.
Music is the very cement that has not just held the black community together but holds black selves together in a fundamental sense.
Every church needs to be able to answer two questions. First, what is our plan for making disciples? And second, does our plan work?
First of all move me, surprise me, rend my heart; make me tremble, weep, shudder; outrage me; delight my eyes afterwards if you can.
I have seen journals with good financial backing and editorial support die because they looked so bad nobody wanted to publish them.
There is no other world. Nor even this one. What, then, is there? The inner smile provoked in us by the patent nonexistence of both.
Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.
Never have the young taken themselves so seriously, and the calamity is that they are listened to and deferred to by so many adults.
The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.
We have to adjust ourselves, and every radical adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem: we undergo a test, we have to prove ourselves.
Nothing so offends the doctrinaire intellectual as our ability to achieve the momentous in a matter-of-fact way, unblessed by words.
It is not truth, justice, liberty, that men seek; they seek only themselves. - And oh, that they knew how to seek themselves aright!
We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.
To be a good patriot, a man must consider his countrymen as God's creatures, and himself as accountable for his acting towards them.
That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow.
To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language.
The man who would emancipate art from discipline and reason is trying to elude rationality, not merely in art, but in all existence.
In unphilosophical minds any rare or unexpected thing excites wonder, while in philosophical minds the familiar excites wonder also.
Either it is the fold of the infinite, or the constant folds [replis] of finitude which curve the outside and constitute the inside.
The conviction that everything that happens on earth must be comprehensible to man can lead to interpreting history by commonplaces.
Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.
Latent genius is but a presumption. Everything that can be, is bound to come into being, and what never comes into being is nothing.
Seldom do we talk of ourselves with success. If I condemn myself, more is believed than is expressed; if I praise myself, much less.
Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.
It should be quite clear, then, that there are no criteria to be laid down in general for distinguishing the real from the not real.
If we are to grow in love, the prisons of our egoism must be unlocked. This implies suffering, constant effort and repeated choices.
At sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely knows that other beings also suffer.
I have such a desire to sleep and am so much behind my sleep. A good night, one good night and all this nonsense will be swept away.
To keep hope alive one must, in spite of all mistakes, horrors, and crimes, recognize the obvious superiority of the socialist camp.
I have always been happy. Even if I had been more honest with regard to myself at that moment I should still have written La Nausee.
With a little luck that epoch may arrive. I am on the side of those who think that things will go better when the world has changed.
What is it that should trace the insuperable line? ...The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?
No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.
Self knowledge begins with the neighbor, the mirror, and just the same with true self-love; that goes from the mirror to the matter.
Traveling is a constant arriving, while arrival that precludes further traveling is most easily attained by going to sleep or dying.
The circumstances of justice may be described as the normal conditions under which human cooperation is both possible and necessary.
In its narrowest acceptation, order means obedience. A government is said to preserve order if it succeeds in getting itself obeyed.