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We shall not understand the history of men and other times unless we ourselves are alive to the requirements which that history satisfied.
The qualities most needed are charity and tolerance, not some form of fanatical faith such as is offered to us by the various rampant isms
The twin conceptions of sin and vindictive punishment seem to be at the root of much that is most vigorous, both in religion and politics.
When I was 4 years old ... I dreamt that I'd been eaten by a wolf, and to my great surprise I was in the wolf's stomach and not in heaven.
... a curious superstition. This is the belief that, if there be introspection at all, it must give exhaustive and infallible information.
A world state which which embraces the entire globe and all of humanity cannot exist. The political world is a pluriverse, not a universe.
And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization.
By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.
To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.
For one word a man is often deemed to be wise, and for one word he is often deemed to be foolish. We should be careful indeed what we say.
None of us alone can save the nation or the world. But each of us can make a positive difference if we commit ourselves to do so. (p. 109)
We want to bear witness today that we know the relation between corporate greed and what goes on too often in the Supreme Court decisions.
Spiritual transformation into Christ-likeness in not going to happen unless we act... What transforms us is the will to obey Jesus Christ.
Mohammed praises [instances of] tretchery, inhumanity, cruelty, revenge, and bigotry that are utterly incompatible with civilized society.
Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.
It is an absurdity to believe that the Deity has human passions, and one of the lowest of human passions, a restless appetite for applause
It is a certain rule that wit and passion are entirely incompatible. When the affections are moved, there is no place for the imagination.
Grief and disappointment give rise to anger, anger to envy, envy to malice, and malice to grief again, till the whole circle be completed.
The great subverter of Pyrrhonism or the excessive principles of scepticism is action, and employment, and the occupations of common life.
As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.
A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.
When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.
A low capacity for getting along with those near us often goes hand in hand with a high receptivity to the idea of the brotherhood of men.
We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.
We probably have a greater love for those we support than for those who support us. Our vanity carries more weight than our self-interest.
A moment's reflection shows that Liberalism is entirely negative. It is not a formative force, but always and only a disintegrating force.
The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.
America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's History shall reveal itself.
Our character ... is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.
Time is like an enterprising manager always bent on staging some new and surprising production, without knowing very well what it will be.
You explain right well, and you shew that you understand argument and are not a mere sophist since you accept that which cannot be denied.
Those who serve as ministers can be compared to hands: reaching up, they take care of the head; reaching down, they take care of the feet.
The possible redemption from the predicament of irreversibility - of being unable to undo what one has done - is the faculty of forgiving.
To perceive means to immobilize. To say this is to say that we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.
Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.
Happiness has no limits, because God has neither bottom nor bounds, and because happiness is nothing but the conquest of God through love.
If you went in search of it, you would not find the boundaries of the soul, though you traveled every road-so deep is its measure [logos].
Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.
The debate about who decides what gets taught is fascinating, albeit excruciating for those who have to defend the schools against bunkum.
[Aristotle formal logic thus far (1787)] has not been able to advance a single step, and hence is to all appearances closed and completed.
Such a caring for death, an awakening that keeps vigil over death, a conscience that looks death in the face, is another name for freedom.
Originality exists in every individual because each of us differs from the others. We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves.
To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.
Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor.
Nothing is more destructive of individual character than for a man to lose all faith in his own abilities for the prosecution of his work.
Perhaps the greatest of all pedagogical fallacies is the notion that a person learns only the particular thing he is studying at the time.
There is nothing left worth preserving in the notions of unseen powers, controlling human destiny, to which obedience and worship are due.
Nature as a whole is a progressive realization of purpose strictly comparable to the realization of purpose in any single plant or animal.
When things have a meaning for us, we mean (intend, propose) what we do: when they do not, we act blindly, unconsciously, unintelligently.
Understanding one another means that objects, including sounds, have the same value for both with respect to carrying on a common pursuit.