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Instead of looking for the dream in reverie, people should look for reverie in the dream. There are calm beaches in the midst of nightmares.
What action could bodies and substances have if they were not named in a further increase of dignity where common nouns become proper nouns?
Social psychology has, as a rule, dealt with various phases of social experience from the psychological standpoint of individual experience.
Philosophy, art, and science are not the mental objects of an objectified brain but the three aspects under which the brain becomes subject.
War is a brutal and fierce means of pacification; it means the suppression of resistance by the destruction or enslavement of the conquered.
Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists.
Art cannot change the world, but it can contribute to changing the consciousness and drives of the men and women who could change the world.
This is what terrorism is occupied with as well: making real, palpable violence surface in opposition to the invisible violence of security.
Her dignity consists in being unknown to the world; her glory is in the esteem of her husband; her pleasures in the happiness of her family.
You take souls for vegetables.... The gardener can decide what will become of his carrots but no one can choose the good of others for them.
Society not only continues to exist by transmission, by communication, but it may fairly be said to exist in transmission, in communication.
Giving and taking of orders modifies actions and results, but does not of itself effect a sharing of purposes, a communication of interests.
In constant pursuit of money to finance campaigns, the political system is simply unable to function. Its deliberative powers are paralyzed.
The ascription of an unconscious intentional phenomenon to a system implies that the phenomenon is in principle accessible to consciousness.
Judgement is given to men that they may use it. Because it may be used erroneously, are men to be told that they ought not to use it at all?
Crown and cloth maken no priest, nor emperor's bishop with his words, but power that crist giveth; and thus by life have been priests known.
It is not at all incredible, that a book which has been so long in the possession of mankind should contain many truths as yet undiscovered.
Partisans fight on familiar territory with professed political objectives to conquer power. This is what distinguishes them from terrorists.
Those dogs of democrats and liberal riff-raff will see that we're the only chaps who haven't been stultified by the ghastly period of peace.
The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.
Wherever the want of clothing forced them to it, the human race made clothes for thousands of years, without a single man becoming a tailor.
Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.
Accomplish but do not boast, accomplish without show, accomplish without arrogance, accomplish without grabbing, accomplish without forcing.
The supreme rulers are hardly known by their subjects. The lesser are loved and praised. The even lesser are feared. The least are despised.
The inner is the foundation of the outer. The still is master of the restless. The Sage travels all day yet never leaves his inner treasure.
Society is joint action and cooperation in which each participant sees the other partner's success as a means for the attainment of his own.
The truth is that most people lack the intellectual ability and courage to resist a popular movement, however pernicious and ill-considered.
If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be no peace.
The class of those who have the ability to think their own thoughts is separated by an unbridgeable gulf from the class of those who cannot.
Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest could improve their material well-being.
If I have exhausted the justifications, I have reached bedrock and my spade is turned. Then I am inclined to say: 'This is simply what I do.
If our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.
To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbial disgrace. [Lat., Culpa enim illa, bis ad eundem, vulgari reprehensa proverbio est.]
Exile is terrible to those who have, as it were, a circumscribed habitation; but not to those who look upon the whole globe but as one city.
I believe that modern science supports free will, in showing that the brain can act spontaneously, not only in response to external stimuli.
The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.
Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acquired by the exercise of the senses . . .
When two seemingly disparate elements are imaginatively poised put in apposition in new and unique ways, startling discoveries often result.
No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.
Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or honorable.
A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego.
It is a category mistake to ask, 'Who made the Unmade?' or 'Who created the Uncreated?' One may as well ask, 'Where is the bachelor's wife?'
So might we ourselves look down into some rock-pool where lowly creatures repeat with naive zest dramas learned by their ancestors æons ago.
The value of three things is justly appreciated by all classes of men: youth, by the old; health, by the diseased; and wealth, by the needy.
The traditional view of the sanctity of human life will collapse under pressure from scientific, technological and demographic developments.
An animal experiment cannot be justifiable unless the experiment is so important that the use of a brain-damaged human would be justifiable.
Hence it is from the representation of things spoken by means of posture and gesture that the whole of the art of dance has been elaborated.
If we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself.
When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest...and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war
As to the artists, do we not know that he only of them whom love inspires has the light of fame?-he whom love touches not walks in darkness.