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Every house guest brings you happiness. Some when they arrive, and some when they are leaving
The injury of prodigality leads to this, that he who will not economize will have to agonize.
There are not the weeds the ones that drown the good seed, but the negligence of the peasant.
When a man feels the difficulty of doing, can he be other than cautious and slow in speaking?
When you love people, you give them a priority. You have a sense of urgency about their pain.
What humanity needs today is not merely philosophy or theology, but a message or reassurance.
Philosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.
What we say has such a profound influence upon what we see, and hear, and taste of the world!
Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.
I have not the hope of being immortal, because the desire of it has not given me that vanity.
Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
When you paint Spring, do not paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots - just paint Spring.
In a snowfall that covers the winter grass a white heron uses his own whiteness to disappear.
Natural objects, for example, must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur.
Direct the glance of apprehension & inquiry to pure consciousness, in its own absolute Being.
The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.
There is apparently no surer way of turning a thing into its opposite than by exaggerating it
It needs some intelligence to be truly selfish. The unintelligent can only be self-righteous.
Knowledge of the name gives him who knows it mastery even over the being and will of the god.
There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.
Philosophy may describe unreasoning, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.
Faith in the supernatural is a desperate wager made by man at the lowest ebb of his fortunes.
The soul is not the body and it may be in one body or in another, and pass from body to body.
What I propose, therefore, is very simple: it is nothing more than to think what we are doing
The end of rebellion is liberation, while the end of revolution is the foundation of freedom.
The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said.
I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
Order means light and peace, inward liberty and free command over one's self; order is power.
To understand is to possess the thing understood, first by sympathy and then by intelligence.
To God all things are fair and good and right, but men hold some things wrong and some right.
A function to each organ, and each organ to its own function, is the law of all organization.
It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
Those people who treat politics and morality separately will never understand either of them.
It is in man's heart that the life of nature's spectacle exists; to see it, one must feel it.
One must choose between making a man or a citizen, for one cannot make both at the same time.
Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself.
The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.
One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart.
I am sure, zeal or love for truth can never permit falsehood to be used in the defense of it.
As often as a study is cultivated by narrow minds, they will draw from it narrow conclusions.
The liberty that remains to us is essentially the freedom to choose among brands A, B, and C.
That faith be analyzable does not necessarily imply a method for getting by without it. . . .
Face the simple fact before it comes involved. Solve the small problem before it becomes big.
Stop trying to control. Let go of fixed plans and concepts, and the world will govern itself.
I know Wikipedia is very cool. A lot of people do not think so, but of course they are wrong.
Be what you are becoming without clinging to what you might have been; what you might yet be.
A wheel that can be turned though nothing else moves with it, is not a part of the mechanism.
I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.