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I can show you that the art of calculation has to do with odd and even numbers in their numerical relations to themselves and to each other.
No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.
Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.
The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
"True" resembles... a compliment paid to sentences that seem to be paying their way and that fit in with other sentences which are doing so.
Had there been no Plato, the Christians would have had a harder time selling the idea that all God really wanted from us was fraternal love.
There is a chapter in 'Gentle Regrets' called 'Coming Home' which is really me expressing my later admiration for my father's public spirit.
Those who would know the world, seek first within your beings' depths; those who would truly know themselves, develop interest in the world.
Philosophy is the art and law of life, and it teaches us what to do in all cases, and, like good marksmen, to hit the white at any distance.
Great is he who enjoys his earthenware as if it were plate, and not less great is the man to whom all his plate is no more that earthenware.
If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you're needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.
He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.
Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.
We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, “I am suffering,” than to say, “This landscape is ugly.
To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.
Trust and integrity are precious resources, easily squandered, hard to regain. They can thrive only on a foundation of respect for veracity.
To give either to any public matter of interest or to any concern of my own, but I am in utter poverty by reason of my devotion to the god .
The first steps in self-acceptance are not at all pleasant, for what one sees is not a happy sight. One needs all the courage to go further.
The high intellectual value of images, however, lies in the fact that they usually, and perhaps always, fit more than one actual experience.
Nature has an economy, an elegance, a style, that if we could but emulate it we could rise out of the rubble we are making out of the planet
The monkey body has carried us to this moment of release, but we are coming more and more to exist in a world made by the human imagination.
The whole of the Amazonian narcotic complex, as it's called in the old literature, is based on activation of DMT by one strategy or another.
The traditional manner of taking psilocybin is to take a very healthy dose, in the vicinity of 15 mg. on an empty stomach in total darkness.
Before philosophy can teach by Experience, the Philosophy has to be in readiness, the Experience must be gathered and intelligibly recorded.
This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.
Friendship, in the old heroic sense of that term, no longer exists. It is in reality no longer expected or recognized as a virtue among men.
A fair day's wage for a fair day's work": it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing. It is the everlasting right of man.
It is one of the consolations of philosophy that the benefit of showing how to dispense with a concept does not hinge on dispensing with it.
Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes. Not through mere perversity do men run after it.
If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.
We see with what keenness and zeal the frivolous business of Freemasons is conducted, by persons knit together by the secrecy of their union.
The well understood equity as well as interest of society demand that we work on much more to prevent crime and offenses than to punish them.
It's time to question a job or career move when it seems like most energy is devoted to making things appear other than what they really are.
The greater part of human activity is designed to make permanent those experiences and joys which are only lovable because they are changing.
Make a spurious division of one process into two, forget that you have done it, and then puzzle for centuries as to how the two get together.
No man of high and generous spirit is ever willing to indulge in flattery; the good may feel affection for others, but will not flatter them.
...perhaps there is some element of good even in the simple act of living, so long as the evils of existence do not preponderate too heavily.
Quite often good things have hurtful consequences. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.
So we must lay it down that the association which is a state exists not for the purpose of living together but for the sake of noble actions.
We should comfort ourselves with the masterpieces of art as with exalted personages-stand quietly before them and wait till they speak to us.
In truth the most striking figure for the relation of the two is that of the strong blind man carrying the sighted lame man on his shoulders.
For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence
One is often told that it is a very wrong thing to attack religion, because religion makes men virtuous. So I am told; I have not noticed it.
Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
Love cannot exists as a duty; to tell a child that it ought to love its parents and its brother and sisters is utterly useless, if not worse.
Aristotle is the last Greek philosopher who faces the world cheerfully; after him, all have, in one form or another, a philosophy of retreat.
All that passes for knowledge can be arranged in a hierarchy of degrees of certainty, with arithmetic and the facts of perception at the top.
The supreme maxim in scientific philosophising is this: wherever possible, logical constructions are to be substituted for inferred entities.
I cannot escape from the conclusion that the great ages of progress have depended upon a small number of individuals of transcendent ability.