Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
But the life that no longer trust another human being and no longer forms ties to the political community is not a human life any longer.
The salvation of man does not lie in his holding himself far removed from the worldly, but in consecrating it to holy, to divine meaning.
Eclipse of the light of heaven, eclipse of God - such indeed is the character of the historic hour through which the world is now passing
Dwelling is not primarily inhabiting but taking care of and creating that space within which something comes into its own and flourishes.
If the child has not an object that it can occupy itself with, it feels ennui; for it does not yet know how to occupy itself with itself.
Literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist.
Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions... Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
We are in truth but pieces on this chess board of life, which in the end we leave, only to drop one by one into the grave of nothingness.
It doesn't really matter what one writes into a constitution. The important thing is what the collective instinct eventually makes of it.
The neuroscience of consciousness is not going to stop in its tracks because some philosophers guesses that project cannot be productive.
The proper Science and Subject for Man's Contemplation is Man himself. [Fr., La vraie science et le vrai etude de l'homme c'est l'homme.]
Surely the wake left behind by mankind's forward march reveals its movement just as clearly as the spray thrown up elsewhere by the prow.
For every man who has learned to fight in arms will desire to learn the proper arrangement of an army, which is the sequel of the lesson.
We should not exercise the body without the joint assistance of the mind; nor exercise the mind without the joint assistance of the body.
Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.
For the rhapsode ought to interpret the mind of the poet to his hearers, but how can he interpret him well unless he knows what he means?
Concerning no subject would [George Bernard] Shaw be deterred by the minor accident of total ignorance from penning a definitive opinion.
My little book of stories, 'Souls in the Twiligh,' may have to stand in for all the other things I have wanted to write in my retirement.
Every day, therefore, should be regulated as if it were the one that brings up the rear, the one that rounds out and completes our lives.
Without an adversary prowess shrivels. We see how great and efficient it really is only when it shows by endurance what it is capable of.
It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.
He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
We should not oppose something just because it was appropriated by the wrong guys; rather, we should think about how to reappropriate it.
Beloved Pan and all ye other gods who haunt this place, give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and the inward man be one.
Such as thy words are, such will thy affections be esteemed; and such will thy deeds be as thy affections and such thy life as thy deeds.
God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.
Seek first God's Kingdom, that is, become like the lilies and the birds, become perfectly silent - then shall the rest be added unto you.
You cannot change the course of events, but you can change your attitude, and what really matters is the attitude and not the mere event.
Leave greatness to others. Become so small that no one can see you. This conviction results from growing devotion to the supreme reality.
You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.
Without an understanding and a familiarity of the psychedelic experience you should be sued for fraud if you're practicing psychotherapy.
If you go to Paris you know more about reality than people who don't. If you smoke DMT you know more about reality than people who don't.
Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance.
O Heaven, it is mysterious, it is awful to consider that we not only carry each a future Ghost within him; but are, in very deed, Ghosts!
The object of man's desire is not to enjoy once only, and for one instant of time; but to assure for ever, the way of his future desires.
Subjects have no greater liberty in a popular than in a monarchial state. That which deceives them is the equal participation of command.
It is continued temperance which sustains the body for the longest period of time, and which most surely preserves it free from sickness.
The greatest empiricists among us are only empiricists on reflection: when left to their instincts, they dogmatize like infallible popes.
For I had often said that the best argument I knew for an immortal life was the existence of a man who deserved one as well as Child did.
We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander's eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
The living all find death unpleasant; men mourn over it. And yet, what is death, but the unbending of the bow and its return to its case?
When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.
Zen... does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life, since without friends no one would choose to live, though possessed of all other advantages.
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time. Seneca Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
The proof that the state is a creation of nature and prior to the individual is that the individual, when isolated, is not self-sufficing.
If anyone conceives that he is loved by another, and believes that he has given no cause for such love, he will love that other in return.
It is usually the case with most men that their nature is so constituted that they pity those who fare badly and envy those who fare well.