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- No more fiendish punishment could be devised, were such a thing physically possible, than that one should be turned loose in society and remain absolutely…
- The war for our Union, with all the constitutional issues which it settled, and all the military lessons which it gathered in, has throughout its…
- This overcoming of all the usual barriers between the individual and the Absolute is the great mystic achievement. In mystic states we both become one…
- Belief is desecrated when given to unproved and unquestioned statements for the solace and private pleasure of the believer . . . It is wrong…
- Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be. If he keep faithfully busy each…
- Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism. In heroism, we feel, life's supreme mystery is…
- Faith is one of the forces by which men live, and the total absence of it means collapse
- My thinking is first and last and always for the sake of my doing, and I can only do one thing at a time.
- One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their…
- I wished by treating Psychology like a natural science, to help her become one.
- Let anyone try, I will not say to arrest, but to notice or to attend to, the present moment of time. One of the most…
- A Beethoven string-quartet is truly, as some one has said, a scraping of horses' tails on cats' bowels, and may be exhaustively described in such…
- Man, biologically considered ... is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own…
- From a pragmatic point of view, the difference between living against a background of foreigness (an indifferent Universe) and one of intimacy (a benevolent Universe)…
- The university most worthy of rational admiration is that one in which your lonely thinker can feel himself lonely, most positively furthered, and most richly…
- To leap across an abyss, one is better served by faith than doubt.
- No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken…
- It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an…
- Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is…
- The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
- We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the…
- There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
- The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
- There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.
- Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.
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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