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We are obliged to respect, defend and maintain the common bonds of union and fellowship that exist among all members of the human race.
Learning maketh young men temperate, is the comfort of old age, standing for wealth with poverty, and serving as an ornament to riches.
The diseases of the mind are more and more destructive than those of the body. [Lat., Morbi perniciores pluresque animi quam corporis.]
An army abroad is of little use unless there are prudent counsels at home. [Lat., Parvi enim sunt foris arma, nisi est consilium domi.]
That, Senators, is what a favour from gangs amounts to. They refrain from murdering someone; then they boast that they have spared him!
But the Night Mother is mother to all! It is her voice we follow! Her will! Would you dare risk disobedience? And surely... punishment?
I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.
Ads push the principle of noise all the way to the plateau of persuasion. They are quite in accord with the procedures of brainwashing.
Today, I think, the state of philosophizing about democracy is very healthy. It bridges political science and philosophy, as it should.
This is the risk: the primary word can only be spoken with the whole being. He who gives himself to it may withhold nothing of himself.
Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells. Those who think and those who create with words are the guardians of this home.
One is not worthy to have what one, through weakness, lets be taken from him; one is not worthy of it because one is not capable of it.
I don't write a book so that it will be the final word; I write a book so that other books are possible, not necessarily written by me.
It is the mysterious touch of the ideal that animates and sustains the real, and through it alone we can discover and affirm the ideal.
You must learn all things, both the unshaken heart of persuasive truth, and the opinions of mortals in which there is no true warranty.
We should aim for our children to be good people, and to live ethical lives that manifest concern for others as well as for themselves.
Mankind is still embryonic ... [man is] the bud from which something more complicated and more centered than man himself should emerge.
...in every man there is an eye of the soul, which...is more precious far than ten thousand bodily eyes, for by it alone is truth seen.
The experience of life in a finite, limited body is specifically for the purpose of discovering and manifesting supernatural existence.
most men and women, by birth or nature, lack the means to advance in wealth or power, but all have the ability to advance in knowledge.
Begin thus from the first act, and proceed; and, in conclusion, at the ill which thou hast done, be troubled, and rejoice for the good.
If ... it is not in my power to arrive at the knowledge of any truth, I may at least do what is in my power, namely, suspend judgement.
There is a great difference between mind and body insomuch as body is by nature always divisible, and the mind is entirely indivisible.
We are more successfully healed by the vis medicatrix naturae (healing power of nature) than by the most ingenious medical application.
The Ventoux is a god of Evil, to which sacrifices must be made. It never forgives weakness and extracts an unfair tribute of suffering.
The body is not a permanent dwelling, but a sort of inn which is to be left behind when one perceives that one is a burden to the host.
Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
The place one's in, though, doesn't make any contribution to peace of mind: it's the spirit that makes everything agreeable to oneself.
As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.
For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.
The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil.
The whole of our civilization is founded on specialization, which implies the enslavement of those who execute to those who coordinate.
Love is what makes sex more than masturbation. If there is no love even if you are really with a partner you masturbate with a partner.
You can be an extreme materialist, thinking that economic development ultimately determines everything; then you are truly ideological.
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.
It's no big deal about how you get language to evolve. You cause language to evolve by saying new and intelligent things to each other.
Cyberspace is the human transition into a mathematical super space where we as a collectivity become optionally a single point of view.
Basically, for me the psychedelic experience was the path to revelation. It actually worked on somebody who thought nothing would work.
What is happening here is we are living past the age, by the millions, living past the age where cultural values make any sense at all.
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
The true Sovereign of the world, who moulds the world like soft wax, according to his pleasure, is he who lovingly sees into the world.
For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man's nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.
Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.
If the mind loves solitude, it has thereby acquired a loftier character, and it becomes still more noble when the taste is indulged in.
Mental fire is what won't burn real sticks; mental water is what won't necessarily (though of course it may) put out even a mentalfire.
If cows and horses had hands and could draw, cows would draw gods that look like cows and horses would draw gods that look like horses.
Your mind must become one, do not try to understand with your ears but with your heart. Indeed, not with your heart but with your soul.
The whole world is incapable of judging either right or wrong. but it is certain that actionless action can judge both right and wrong.
The supreme blossoming of character lies (or reside) in renounciation (or renuncement) and abnegation of self ("abnégation de soi", Fr.)