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Logic is the last scientific ingredient of Philosophy; its extraction leaves behind only a confusion of non-scientific, pseudo problems.
But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation.
Who is everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.
There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won't make the crooked straight.
Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.
Did Wagner really accomplish the first step towards the kitschy 'fetishization' of music that reaches its apogee in classical Hollywood?
In the eyes of God, the infinite spirit, all the millions that have lived and now live do not make a crowd. He only sees each individual
This is all that I've known for certain, that God is love. Even if I have been mistaken on this or that point: God is nevertheless love.
Jurists say that a capital crime submerges all lesser crimes; and so it is with faith. Its absurdity makes all petty difficultiesvanish.
Only when Eternity takes Time by the hand, Only when infinity weds the finite's thought, Can man be free from himself and live with God.
Even for a moment do not think that you are the body. Give yourself no name, no shape. In the darkness and the silence reality is found.
When we free ourselves we are not freed into a void. When we free ourselves we are freed into a dimension in which Art is an obligation.
No one is in charge of this process, this is what makes history so interesting, it's a runaway freight train on a dark and stormy night.
It is the imagination that argues for the Divine Spark within human beings. It is literally a decent of the World's Soul into all of us.
The good news about psychedelics is that they are incredibly democratic. Even the clueless can be swept along if the dose is sufficient.
The main thing going on in the 20th century is a dissolving of boundaries, all the boundaries that historical civilization put in place.
Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.
Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work.
There needs not a great soul to make a hero; there needs a god-created soul which will be true to its origin; that will be a great soul!
Let a man (as most men do) rate themselves as the highest Value they can; yet their true Value is no more than it is esteemed by others.
Without good-will, no man has any presumptive right, except the right or opportunity to change his will, so long as there is hope of it.
When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
When one is not slipshod in small matters, not hypocritical in secret, and not reckless in disappointment, only then is one a true hero.
Those who have come to an impasse should examine their original intentions; those who have succeeded should note where they are heading.
All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.
The mob, when they are gazing at a dancer on the slack rope, naturally writhe and twist and balance their own bodies, as they see him do.
If you are ready to wake up, you are going to wake up. If you're not you are going to stay pretending that you are just a poor little me.
To play so as to be relaxed and refreshed for work is not to play, and no work is well and finely done unless it, too, is a form of play.
I want to make clear only that words are not the things spoken about, and that there is no such thing as an object in absolute isolation.
All other things have a portion of everything, but Mind is infinite and self-ruled, and is mixed with nothing but is all alone by itself.
There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.
We become just by the practice of just actions, self-controlled by exercising self-control, and courageous by performing acts of courage.
Modesty is hardly to be described as a virtue. It is a feeling rather than a disposition. It is a kind of fear of falling into disrepute.
He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.
I know of no more beautiful prayer than that which the Hindus of old used in closing: May all that have life be delivered from suffering.
Sexual passion is the cause of war and the end of peace, the basis of what is serious... and consequently the concentration of all desire
Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.
Reasonable and vicious are quite consistent with each other, in fact, only through their union are great and far-reaching crimes possible
Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.
Who ever heard a theologian preface his creed, or a politician conclude his speech with an estimate of the probable error of his opinion?
One eminently orthodox Catholic divine laid it down that a confessor may fondle a nun's breasts, provided he does it without evil intent.
Truth is for the gods; from our human point of view, it is an ideal, towards which we can approximate, but which we cannot hope to reach.
Unless a man has been taught what to do with success after getting it, the achievement of it must inevitably leave him a prey to boredom.
Brains cause technology, society, art, science, soap operas, sin. A remarkable set of effects for such a small chunk of coagulated atoms.
Just as lavishness leads easily to presumption, so does frugality to meanness. But meanness is a far less serious fault than presumption.
The superior man governs men, according to their nature, with what is proper to them, and as soon as they change what is wrong, he stops.
When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable.
The wise man looks at death with honesty, dignity and calm, recognizing that the tragedy it brings is inherent in the great gift of life.
And when I talk about love, I'm talking about something that's great, though, brother. I'm talking about something that will sustain you.