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In accordance with my conception of life, I have chosen not to bring children into the world. A coin is examined, and…
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Man is a tragic animal. Not because of his smallness, but because he is too well endowed. Man has longings and spiritual…
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We come from an inconceivable nothingness. We stay a while in something which seems equally inconceivable, only to vanish again into the…
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The seed of a metaphysical or religious defeat is in us all. For the honest questioner, however, who doesn't seek refuge in…
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The tragedy of a species becoming unfit for life by over-evolving one ability is not confined to humankind. Thus it is thought,…
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Each new generation asks – What is the meaning of life? A more fertile way of putting the question would be –…
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Know yourselves- be infertile and let the earth be silent after ye.
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A coin is turned around before it is handed to the beggar, yet a child is unflinchingly tossed into cosmic bruteness.
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When a human being takes his life in depression, this is a natural death of spiritual causes. The modern barbarity of 'saving'…
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The immediate facts are what we must relate to. Darkness and light, beginning and end.
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Mankind ought to end its existence of its own will.
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If one regards life and death as natural processes, the metaphysical dread vanishes, and one obtains peace of mind.
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There is nothing unpremeditated, nothing neglected by God. His unsleeping eye beholds all things.
— Saint Basil
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They whose guilt within their bosom lies, imagine every eye beholds their blame.
— William Shakespeare
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What one beholds of a woman is the least part of her.
— Ovid
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For he, indeed, who looks into the face of a friend beholds, as it were, a copy of himself.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes…
— John Dryden
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The bird alighteth not on the spread net when it beholds another bird in the snare. Take warning by the misfortunes of…
— Saadi
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
— Plotinus
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If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.
— Gautama Buddha
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In the person of Christ God beholds a holiness which abides His closest scrutiny, yea, which rejoices and satisfies His heart; and…
— Arthur W. Pink
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No man can perform so little as not to have reason to congratulate himself on his merits, when he beholds the multitude…
— Samuel Johnson
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Intuitive knowledge is an illumination of the soul, whereby it beholds in the light of God those things which it pleases Him…
— Rene Descartes
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One must have a mind of winter to regard the frost and the boughs of the pine trees, crusted with snow, And…
— Wallace Stevens
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