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The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.
Intelligence has got the upper hand to such an extent that it transforms the real task into an unreal trick and reality into a play.
The expression "from above" is for us only a way of speaking. Many receive from above the command for action - we call it intuition.
All persistent practices in art have a creative function. They may serve several ends, but the chief one is the shaping of the work.
What was created by the era of the proper gentleman was excellent table manners and genocide over most of the surface of the planet.
The numinous depth of the mystery that seems to have called us out of the animal mind is completely impenetrable to modern analysis.
I will be sufficiently rewarded if when telling it to others you will not claim the discovery as your own, but will say it was mine.
Silence, the great Empire of Silence: higher than all stars; deeper than the Kingdom of Death! It alone is great; all else is small.
The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows. The greatest of faults, I should say is to be conscious of none.
No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy.
None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9 percent, Of everything you think, And of everything you do, Is for yourself - And there isn’t one.
Even if a man should chance to speak the most complete truth, yet he himself does not know it; all things are wrapped in appearances
A nation is not made wealthy by the childish accumulation of shiny metals, but it enriched by the economic prosperity of it's people.
The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.
We can, following the exemple of Kant, consider the moral development and improvement of men, as the supreme goal of human evolution.
If we live, we live; if we die, we die; if we suffer, we suffer; if we are terrified, we are terrified. There is no problem about it.
It is obvious that the only interesting people are interested people, and to be completely interested is to have forgotten about "I".
There is no real teacher who in practise does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.
There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.
I asked questions when I was a stripling, and it is not my business to ask questions now, but to teach people what I have discovered.
The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends, and will always make the best of his circumstances.
When you feel yourself lacking something, send your thoughts towards your Intimate and search for the Divinity that lives within you.
It is their character indeed that makes people who they are. But it is by reason of their actions that they are happy or the reverse.
Money originated with royalty and slavery, it has nothing to do with democracy or the struggle of the empoverished enslaved majority.
It is the active exercise of our faculties in conformity with virtue that causes happiness, and the opposite activities its opposite.
If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.
.. for desire is like a wild beast, and anger perverts rulers and the very best of men. Hence law is intelligence without appetition.
For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.
Every science consists in the coordination of facts; if the different observations were entirely isolated, there would be no science.
Calculating machines do sums better than even the cleverest people… As arithmetic has grown easier, it has come to be less respected.
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
This illustrates an important truth, namely, that the worse your logic, the more interesting the consequences to which it gives rise.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
Mysticism is, in essence, little more than a certain intensity and depth of feeling in regard to what is believed about the universe.
Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.
This idea of weapons of mass extermination is utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate.
Americans need rest, but do not know it. I believe this to be a large part of the explanation of the crime wave in the United States.
So nothing is ever good or bad unless you think it so, and vice versa. All luck is good luck to the man who bears it with equanimity.
In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.
I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue would esteem nothing above it.
While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits of the dead...While you do not know life, how can you know about death
If doing what ought to be done be made the first business and success a secondary consideration--is not this the way to exalt virtue?
I take my fundamental cue from John Coltrane that says there must be a priority of integrity, honesty, decency, and mastery of craft.
In the long run I certainly hope information is the cure for fanaticism, but I am afraid information is more the cause than the cure.
The chief good is the suspension of the judgment [especially negative judgement], which tranquillity of mind follows like its shadow.
Anaxagoras said to a man who was grieving because he was dying in a foreign land, "The descent to Hades is the same from every place.
Do not arouse disdainful mind when you prepare a broth of wild grasses; do not arouse joyful mind when you prepare a fine cream soup.
One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.
One of the chief differences between an adult and a juvenile is that the adult knows when he is an ass while the juvenile never does.