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Right education should help the student, not only to develop his capacities, but to understand his own highest interest.
We have so committed ourselves in different ways that we have hardly any time for self-reflection, to observe, to study.
In Nature all is common, and no use is base. She keeps no selected elements done up in gilt papers for sensitive people.
Give me the benefit of your convictions, if you have any; but keep your doubts to yourself, for I have enough of my own.
It matters little whether a man be mathematically or philologically or artistically cultivated, so he be but cultivated.
We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.- Henry Ward Beecher - I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
For a strolling damsel a doubtful reputation bears. [Ger., Denn ein wanderndes Madchen ist immer von schwankendem Rufe.]
A plant is like a self-willed man, out of whom we can obtain all which we desire, if we will only treat him his own way.
If a poet would work politically, he must give himself up to a party; and so soon as he does that, he is lost as a poet.
Man cannot persist long in a conscious state, he must throw himself back into the unconscious, for his root lives there.
I can't pretend that I did one really awful thing - I took a bite out of the apple but now I'm never going to sin again.
Nothing the European mind ever devised was meant to do anything but to facilitate the European's control over the world.
At that age you think boys have as much personality as coat hangers and, you don't notice their looks. Then you grow up.
Thou art coming to a King, large petitions with thee bring, for His grace and power are such none can ever ask too much.
In every marriage the wife has to keep her mouth shut about at least one small thing her husband does that disgusts her.
Illinois is a state of suspended animation and the people live in hibernation from Oct. to whenever it ever gets warmer.
For Obama to save himself, he should be thinking about the example of an unlikely Republican predecessor: Richard Nixon.
Unbuttered toast is a substance half complete, and to be forced to eat it in that state is necessarily to feel deprived.
Thanks to the invention of the telescope, planets that are 100 billion miles away look to be only 50 billion miles away.
Most climbers aren't in fact deranged, they're just infected with a particularly virulent strain of the Human Condition.
I mean, how can you not be a feminist if you have a brain in your head? If you’re not a feminist, then you’re a problem.
She let out a laugh, and then she put her hand over her mouth, like she was angry at herself for forgetting her sadness.
Oh, I'd say I like a meal as much as anybody. But I find a certain kind of foodiness silly, gluttonous and embarrassing.
I'm interested in the kind of religion that makes life harder. I'm not so interested in the comforting kind of religion.
The books could be completely worthless, and things we don't even read now could be considered the most important books.
I believe that I've been asked all possible questions. I, myself, if I were a journalist, would not know what to ask me.
There is nothing that is truly free nor democratic enough. Make no mistake, the internet did not come to save the world.
When you follow your bliss, you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open the doors to you.
The function of the society is to cultivate the individual. It is not the function of the individual to support society.
How to get rid of ego as dictator and turn it into messenger and servant and scout, to be in your service, is the trick.
The hero, therefore, is the man or woman who has been able to battle past his personal and local historical limitations.
Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.
Society is the atmosphere of souls; and we necessarily imbibe from it something which is either infectious or healthful.
Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
We are being called into realization with great urgency and extraordinary beauty, and oftentimes not without difficulty.
You grew old first not in your own eyes, but in other people's eyes; then, slowly, you agreed with their opinion of you.
You lose the world for a glance? Of course you do. That is what the world is for: to lose under the right circunstances.
I should have realized, when Cathal kissed me in the hallway, that my response was the first raindrop heralding a storm.
In India, I learned a proverb that says, 'Distrust the calculation seven times over, the mathematician a hundred times.'
One precedent creates another and they soon accumulate and constitute law. What yesterday was a fact, today is doctrine.
I was neither black enough for the black kids or Dominican enough for the Dominican kids. I didn't have a safe category.
"Well? Is it true? Did she?" "Did she what?" "You know. Fall outta the crazy tree and hit every branch on the way down?"
I think if a story has a message it should be incidental and accidental, otherwise it leans too close to indoctrination.
The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.
My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.
The art of an actress is sublimated sexuality. But off the stage the fire must be able to reconvert the steam into body.
What are all the orgies of Bacchus when compared to the intoxication of someone who completely surrenders to continence!
Certainly I had a really terrible time with 'Emotionally Weird.' When I finished it, I thought, 'I can't write any more.
Feminism is such an incredibly awkward word for us these days, isnt it? Not to be feminist would be bizarre, wouldnt it?
The shapes arranged themselves into words, and the words spelled out a delicious and wonderful phrase: Once upon a time.