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- I like that: a little pressure on the understood boundaries of yourself. Sounded like something out of a self-awareness class, probably with yoga. See what…
- It wasn't so long ago when all the so-called scientists said that humans were intelligent and that animals weren't, humans were the solitary unchallenged masters…
- One keeps searching for ease, she did not say, and not finding it, till the memories of no-pain seem only like daydreams.
- Oh, why does compassion weaken us?' It doesn't, really...Somewhere where it all balances out-don't the philosophers have a name for it, the perfect place, the…
- She, too, spoke only when the queen or king addressed her first, but she looked searchingly at every supplicant, and her clear face said that…
- At least I was true. My intellectual abilities gave me a release, and an excuse. I shunned company because I preferred books; and the dreams…
- It doesn't matter if I'm only to be gone four days, as in this case; I take six months' supply of reading material everywhere. Anyone…
- Everything was an adventure, at night, when you were where you shouldn't be, even if it was somwhere you could go perfectly well in daylight,…
- I didn’t want to know that the monster that lived under your bed when you were a kid not only really is there but used…
- I said: "He cannot be so bad if he loves roses so much." "But he is a Beast," said Father helplessly. I saw that he…
- I found that the only way I could control this sorrow was not to think of [it] at all, which was almost as painful as…
- Why do you tell me... so much?" Luthe considered her. "I tell you... some you need to know, and some you have earned the right…
- Beauty: "You called me beautiful last night." Beast: "You do not believe me then?" Beauty: "Well - no. Any number of mirrors have told me…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle