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If a man does not know to what port he is steering, no wind is favorable to him. Ignoranti quem portum petat, nullus suus ventus est.
There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too.
Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic if it is pulled out I shall die.
An active mind needs an outlet. If it stops by itself from within, well and good; otherwise one should not try to stop this by force.
Being oneself is completely beyond all motivation. You cannot be yourself for some reason. You are yourself, and no reason is needed.
The world which we perceive is a tiny fraction of the world which we can perceive, which is a tiny fraction of the perceivable world.
Inform yourself, inform your children, talk to your friends! And let's try to make a better, stonier world than the one we inherited!
We are part of a symbiotic relationship with something which disguises itself as an extra-terrestrial invasion so as not to alarm us.
No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.
Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books.
Great men are the modelers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to do and attain.
Severe poverty is getting better by some measures, but it's also becoming ever more scandalous because it is now so easily avoidable.
Wyman's overpopulated universe is in many ways unlovely. It offends the aesthetic sense of us who have a taste for desert landscapes.
Every sort of energy and endurance, of courage and capacity for handling life's evils, is set free in those who have religious faith.
So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end...and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
The work that leads to a doctor's degree is a constant temptation to sacrifice one's growth as a man to one's growth as a specialist.
And I say, the meaning of life is what you make it. There will be as many different meaningful lives as there are people to live them.
Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.
There is philosophy, which is about conceptual analysis - about the meaning of what we say - and there is all of this ... all of life.
It is unjust that the whole of society should contribute towards an expence of which the benefit is confined to a part of the society.
When the profits of trade happen to be greater than ordinary, over-trading becomes a general error both among great and small dealers.
There is sorrow in finitude. The Self is beyond time, space and objects. It is infinite and hence of the nature of absolute happiness.
Love can only consist in failure...on the fallacious assumption that it is a relationship. But it is not. It is a production of truth.
...the whole universe is through and through the playing of love in every shade of the word's use, from animal lust to divine charity.
Identification makes general sanity and complete adjustment impossible. Training in non-identity plays a therapeutic role with adults.
Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.
You need not wonder at my knowing all human languages; for, to tell you the truth, I also understand all the secrets of human silence.
There is simple ignorance, which is the source of lighter offenses, and double ignorance, which is accompanied by a conceit of wisdom.
It is of itself that the divine thought thinks (since it is the most excellent of things), and its thinking is a thinking on thinking.
The shape of the heaven is of necessity spherical; for that is the shape most appropriate to its substance and also by nature primary.
The majority of men... are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and... are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.
We must take care not to admit as true anything, which is only probable. For when one falsity has been let in, infinite others follow.
I've always thought respectable people scoundrels, and I look anxiously at my face every morning for signs of my becoming a scoundrel.
The discipline in your life should be one determined by your own desires and your own needs, not put upon you by society or authority.
It will be found, as men grow more tolerant in their instincts, that many uniformities now insisted upon are useless and even harmful.
Christianity offers reasons for not fearing death or the universe, and in so doing it fails to teach adequately the virtue of courage.
In mass cruelty, the expulsions of Germans ordered by the Russians fall not very far short of the atrocities perpetrated by the Nazis.
That a man lives is because he is straight. That a man who dupes others survives is because he has been fortunate enough to be spared.
The superior man, even when he is not moving, has a feeling of reverence, and while he speaks not, he has the feeling of truthfulness.
From the Son of Heaven down to the mass of the people, all must consider the cultivation of the person the root of everything besides.
He Who Knows And Knows That He Knows Is A Wise Man - Follow Him; He Who Knows Not And Knows Not That He Knows Not Is A Fool - Shun Him
Rate the task above the prize; will not the mind be raised? Fight thine own faults, not the faults of others; will not evil be mended?
We are intent on building a movement. The next step is grassroots town meetings. We must keep alive the dialogue around the covenants.
If the best the roboticists can hope for is the creation of some crude, cheesy, second-rate, artificial consciousness, they still win.
Praise never gives us much pleasure unless it concur with our own opinion, and extol us for those qualities in which we chiefly excel.
I have written on all sorts of subjects... yet I have no enemies; except indeed all the Whigs, all the Tories, and all the Christians.
Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.
If ever anybody dedicated his whole life to the "enthusiasm for truth and justice" using this phrase in the good sense it was Diderot.
There are really no serious arguments for communion in the hand. But there are the most gravely serious kinds of arguments against it.