Whenever one tries to suppress doubt , there is tyranny .

What hope is there for innocence if it is not recognized?

Every kind of reward constitutes a degradation of energy.

If you have reasons to love someone, you don’t love them.

To live well and honorably and justly are the same thing.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is a habit.

If he who does not know kept silent, discord would cease.

The best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst.

Those who want the fewest things are nearest to the gods.

By means of beauty all beautiful things become beautiful.

Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.

Wisdom adorneth riches and casteth a shadow over poverty.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

The most common form of despair is not being who you are.

Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.

It is very important in life to know when your cue comes.

My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.

The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself.

Be conscious first of thyself within, then think and act.

The heart's words fall back unheard from Wisdom's throne.

Love.. is seeing the unity under the imaginary diversity.

Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.

The surface of things is not where attention should rest.

Alcoholism isn't a disease. It's a failure of self-image.

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

All greatness is unconscious, or it is little and naught.

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.

Happy the People whose Annals are blank in History Books!

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.

The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit.

Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.

What is philosophy but a continual battle against custom?

Words signify man's refusal to accept the world as it is.

Paul substituted faith in Christ for the Christlike life.

I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing.

The instinct of ownership is fundamental in man's nature.

Footnotes -- little dogs yapping at the heels of the text

Act in earnest and you will become earnest in all you do.

Geometry is one of the handles of science and philosophy.

If the ox could think, it would attribute oxality to God.

Better than the strength of men and horses is our wisdom.

Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.

To be truly ignorant, be content with your own knowledge.

A sage steers by the bright light of confusion and doubt.

Religions survive mainly because they brainwash the young.

Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production.

Increasingly, the world around us looks as if we hated it.

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