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- A man may have strong humanitarian and democratic principles, but if he happens to have been brought up as a bath-taking, shirt-changing lover of fresh…
- It is because we don't know who we are, because we are unaware that the Kingdom of Heaven is within us, that we behave in…
- Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born...
- Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the…
- Compared with that of Taoists and Far Eastern Buddhists, the Christian attitude toward Nature has been curiously insensitive and often downright domineering and violent. Taking…
- To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a…
- The greatest triumphs of propoganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a…
- Men have always been a prey to distractions, which arethe original sins of the mind; but never before today has an attempt been made to…
- What I may call the messages of Brave New World, but it is possible to make people contented with their servitude. I think this can…
- The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
- Our goal is to discover that we have always been where we ought to be
- Some of the greatest advances in mathematics have been due to the invention of symbols, which it afterwards became necessary to explain; from the minus…
- The nature of oratory is such that there has always been a tendency among politicians and clergymen to oversimplify complex matters. From a pulpit or…
- Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accomplishment.... The world, you must remember, is only…
- Assemble a mob of men and women previously conditioned by a daily reading of the newspapers; treat them to amplified band music, bright lights...and in…
- A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance…
- It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no…
- The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at…
- It is possible to argue that the really influential book is not that which converts ten millions of casual readers, but rather that which converts…
- The Savage interrupted him. "But isn't it natural to feel there's a God?" "You might as well ask if it's natural to do up one's…
- The soul of wit may become the very body of untruth. However elegant and memorable, brevity can never, in the nature of things, do justice…
- Something that had been a single cell, a cluster of cells, a little sac of tissue, a kind of worm, a potential fish with gills,…
- One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
- Most lead lives at worst so painful, at best so monotonous, poor and limited that the urge to escape, the longing to transcend themselves if…
- To be enlightened is to be aware, always, of total reality in its immanent otherness - to be aware of it and yet remain in…
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- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end… — Hank Aaron
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been… — J. J. Abrams
- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour