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- I am certain and have always stressed that the destination of mankind is to become more and more humane. The ideal of humanity has to…
- Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death itself.
- Whatever you have received more than others-in health, in talents, in ability, in success, in a pleasant childhood, in harmonious conditions of home life-all this…
- Ethics cannot be based upon our obligations toward people, but they are complete and natural only when we feel this Reverence for Life and the…
- To affirm life is to deepen, to make more inward, and to exalt the will-to-life. At the same time the man who has become a…
- The deeper we look into nature, the more we recognize that it is full of life, and the more profoundly we know that all life…
- Affirmation of life is the spiritual act by which man ceases to live unreflectively and begins to devote himself to his life with reverence in…
- The harvested fields bathed in the autumn mist speak of God and his goodness far more vividly than any human lips.
- To me, good health is more than just exercise and diet. Its really a point of view and a mental attitude you have about yourself.
- From naive simplicity we arrive at more profound simplicity.
- I have given up the ambition to be a great scholar. I want to be more- simply a human. . . . We are not…
- We ought all to make an effort to act on our first thoughts and let our unspoken gratitude find expression. Then there will be more…
- You must learn to understand the secret of gratitude. It is more than just so-called virtue. It is revealed to you as a mysterious law…
- We must all die. But that I can save him from days of torture, that is what I feel as my great and ever new…
- I believe that I possess this value: to serve Jesus. I am less at peace than if my goal would be to attain a professorship…
- It is not enough merely to exist. It's not enough to say, "I'm earning enough to support my family. I do my work well. I'm…
- Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
- Who shall enumerate the many ways in which that costly piece of fixed capital, a human being , may be employed! More of him is…
- It's not enough merely to exist. Every man has to seek in his own way to make his own self more noble and to relize…
- As we acquire knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.
- Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they…
- Happiness? That's nothing more than a good health and a poor memory.
- The only progress that knowledge allows is in enabling us to describe more and more in detail the world we see and its evolution. What…
- It is not enough merely to exist. It's not enough to say, 'I'm earning enough to support my family. I do my work well. I'm…
- From native simplicity we arrive at more profound simplicity.
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- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle