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Rational thought is interpretation according to a scheme which we cannot escape. — Friedrich Nietzsche
There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read may read our… — Thomas Browne
Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels least… — Charles Caleb Colton
He's a blockhead who wants a proof of what he cannot perceive. And he's a fool a fool who tries to make such a blockhead… — Prince William
You keep accusing me of blasphemy all of the time, but I cannot be convicted of a victimless crime. — Dan Barker
Now the images and temples constructed by mechanics are made of inert matter, so that they too are inert, material, and profane. Even if you… — Clement of Alexandria
If we refuse our homage to statues and frigid images, the very counterpart of their dead originals, with which hawks, and mice, and spiders are… — Tertullian
To be happy with human beings, we should not ask them for what they cannot give. — Tristan Bernard
It is axiomatic that we should all think of ourselves as being more sensitive than other people because, when we are insensitive in our dealings… — Wystan Hugh Auden
There are no events so disastrous that adroit men do not draw some advantage from them, nor any so fortunate that the imprudent cannot turn… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I cannot afford to waste my time making money — Louis Agassiz
The angels are a strange genus, they are precisely what they are and cannot be anything else. They are themselves soul-less beings who represent nothing… — Carl Jung
Innately, children seem to have little true realistic anxiety. They will run along the brink of water, climb on the window sill, play with sharp… — Sigmund Freud
I cannot say that I don't disagree with you. — Groucho Marx
Unless you can find some sort of LOYALTY, you cannot find unity and peace in your active living. — Josiah Royce
Soul-the spiritual principle, the creative spark of God-cannot work if you panic. Anxiety shuts down the creative centers. When you can't think, whatever you try… — Harold Klemp
Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In… — Dalai Lama
You are desperate to communicate, to edify or entertain, to preserve moments of grace or joy or transcendence, to make real or imagined events come… — Anne Lamott
In spiritual life there is no room for compromise. Awakening is not negotiable; we cannot bargain to hold on to things that please us while… — Jack Kornfield
We cannot will to have insights. We cannot will to have creativity, but we can will to give ourselves to the creative experience with intensity… — Rollo May

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