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- Help your sister's boat across the water, and yours too will reach the other side. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind…
- There is a grandeur in the uniformity of the mass. When a fashion, a dance, a song, a slogan or a joke sweeps like wildfire…
- The necessary has never been man's top priority. The passionate pursuit of the nonessential and the extravagant is one of the chief traits of human…
- A plant needs roots in order to grow. With man it is the other way around: only when he grows does he have roots and…
- The real "haves" are they who can acquire freedom, self-confidence, and even riches without depriving others of them. They acquire all of these by developing…
- Nature attains perfection, but man never does. There is a perfect ant, a perfect bee, but man is perpetually unfinished. He is both an unfinished…
- The genuine creator creates something that has a life of its own, something that can exist and function without him. This is true not only…
- A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own…
- When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
- We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.
- There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.
- Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.
- It is thus with most of us; we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay.
- A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own…
- Religion is not a matter of God, church, holy cause, etc. These are but accessories. The source of religious preoccupation is in the self, or…
- The pre-human creature from which man evolved was unlike any other living thing in its malicious viciousness toward its own kind. Humanization was not a…
More Other Quotes
- . . . a basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.… — Norman Vincent Peale
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Friendship is not only about sharing each and everything having long conversation, hanging out, its about having complete trust in each other… — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle