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- Ever desireless, one can see the mystery. Ever desiring, one can see the manifestations. These two spring from the same source but differ in name;…
- By steadily disciplining the animal nature, until it becomes one pointed, it is possible to establish conscious awareness of The Eternal.
- Throw away sacredness and wisdom and people will be one hundred times happier.
- When the intelligent and animal souls are held together in one embrace, they can be kept from separating.
- He does not struggle with anyone - thus no one can vanquish him.
- Arms are instruments of ill omen.... When one is compelled to use them, it is best to do so without relish. There is no glory…
- It is because every one tinder Heaven recognizes beauty as beauty that the idea of ugliness exists.
- On the one hand, loss implies gain; on the other hand, gain implies loss.
- Arms are instruments of ill omen, not the instruments of the gentleman. When one is compelled to use them, it is best to do so…
- Mask your brightness. Be at one with the dust of the earth. This is primal union.
- To know how little one knows is to have genuine knowledge. Not to know how little one knows is to be deluded. Only those who…
- Pride attaches undue importance to the superiority of one's status in the eyes of others; and shame is fear of humiliation at one's inferior status…
- Without going out-of-doors, one can know all he needs to know. Without even looking out of his window, one can grasp the nature of everything.…
- With virtue and quietness one may conquer the world.
- People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was…
- Because one believes in oneself, one doesn't try to convince. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn't need others' approval. Because one accepts oneself,…
- To lead, one must follow.
- Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because…
- Because of a great love, one is courageous.
- The wise stand out because they see themselves as part of the Whole. They shine because they don't want to impress. They achieve great things…
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- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle