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Mankind cannot get on without a certain amount of absurdity.
Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.
Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is.
Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.
All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.
In a just world, there would be no possibility of 'charity'.
Facts have to be discovered by observation, not by reasoning
People who are vigorous and brutal often find war enjoyable.
A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
Those who know the TRUTH are not equal to those who love it.
A truly great man never puts away the simplicity of a child.
A man living without conflicts, as if he never lives at all.
I'd rather die for speaking out, than to live and be silent.
The end of the day is near when small men make long shadows.
The superior man is distressed by his want (lack) of ability
Rap is just a movement within the larger culture of hip-hop.
Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.
Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
The true saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on takeoff.
Blessing is the projection of good into the life of another.
A scholar is just a library's way of making another library.
Magnanimity consists in enduring tactlessness with mildness.
Nature . . . has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea.
The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be.
I haven't got any Buddhism. I live by letting things happen.
Increasing knowledge lessens the sphere of the supernatural.
A man's worth is what he is divided by what he thinks he is.
Ideas have significance for him only as a prelude to action.
Any defense of common sense must allow that it is revisable.
The way politics divides the world is into friend and enemy.
Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me
Serious occupation is labor that has reference to some want.
We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see.
To keep beauty in its place is to make all things beautiful.
Familiarity breeds contempt only when it breeds inattention.
Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.
I have imagination, and nothing that is real is alien to me.
Love is at once more animal than friendship and more divine.
Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.
The man who deceives shows more justice than he who does not
Claiming certainty without corroborating evidence is stupid.
Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
Ordinary language embodies the metaphysics of the Stone Age.
The strong need the weak as much as the weak need the strong
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.