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There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.
The ultimate lesson of The Interpretation of Dreams: reality is for those who cannot sustain the dream.
Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
Which is more difficult, to awaken one who sleeps or to awaken one who, awake, dreams that he is awake?
A road well begun is the battle half won. The important thing is to make a beginning and get under way.
Freedom's possibility is not the ability to choose the good or the evil. The possibility is to be able.
The mind has these four levels: physical, vital, buddhi, higher mind. The Supermind is far above these.
All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away.
The culture cannot evolve faster than the language. The language is the flashlight that shows the path.
We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture.
I'm fascinated by hallucinations. I mean, to me that is the sina qua non that you're getting somewhere.
Liberate yourself from the illusion of culture. Take responsibility for what you think and what you do.
The drug may not be toxic, but you may be self-toxic, and you may discover this in the drug experience.
History is like self-reflection through the medium of language propelling itself into self-recognition.
In every object there is inexhaustible meaning; the eye sees in it what the eye brings means of seeing.
All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.
Laws themselves, political Constitutions, are not our Life; but only the house wherein our Life is led.
If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.
He who takes not counsel of the Unseen and Silent, from him will never come real visibility and speech.
Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and knows.
Man is distinguished not only by his reason, but also by this singular passion, from all other animals.
Disciples and devotees…what are most of them doing? Worshipping the teapot instead of drinking the tea!
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
In any project the important factor is your belief. Without belief, there can be no successful outcome.
Spiritual energy flows in and produces effects, psychological or material, within the phenomenal world.
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
This upper limit, of earth at our feet is visible and touches the air, but below it reaches to infinity
An instructed and intelligent people are always more decent and orderly than an ignorant and stupid one.
In order to improve democracy, then, it's necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed.
A philosopher is a sort of intellectual yokel who gawks at things that sensible people take for granted.
If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.
He who learns and learns and yet does not know what he knows, is one who plows and plows yet never sows.
There is no death of anyone, save in appearance, just as there is no birth of any, save only in seeming.
It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.
Why do men seek honour? Surely in order to confirm the favorable opinion they have formed of themselves.
Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion.
Men become richer not only by increasing their existing wealth but also by decreasing their expenditure.
He who thus considers things in their first growth and origin ... will obtain the clearest view of them.
Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because life is sweet and they are growing.
The angry man wishes the object of his anger to suffer in return; hatred wishes its object not to exist.
Marrying means, to grasp blindfolded into a sack hoping to find out an eel out of an assembly of snakes.
The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.
It is the courage to make a clean breast of it in the face of every question that makes the philosopher.
The truth is that we all have to do more things than we can rightly do, if we are to do anything at all.
Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept.
The first step in wisdom, as well as in morality, is to open the windows of the ego as wide as possible.
All serious innovation is only rendered possible by some accident enabling unpopular persons to survive.