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- If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it…
- Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each…
- To the glistening eastern sea, I give you Queen Lucy the Valiant. To the great western woods, King Edmund the Just. To the radiant southern…
- A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something…
- Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under…
- We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it.
- It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous.
- Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake…
- If you are really a product of a materialistic universe, how is it that you don't feel at home there?
- Now is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It won't last forever. We must take…
- Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is.
- What seem our worst prayers may really be, in God's eyes, our best. Those, I mean, which are least supported by devotional feeling. For these…
- We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.
- Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to believe in a certain way, and can't really get rid of…
- Be sure that the ins and outs of your individuality are no mystery to Him; and one day they will no longer be a mystery…
- You would not call a man humane for ceasing to set mousetraps if he did so because he believed there were no mice in the…
- You cannot go on 'explaining away' for ever: you will find that you have explained explanation itself away. You cannot go on 'seeing through' things…
- Prosperity knits a man to the world. He feels that he is finding his place in it, while really it is finding its place in…
- Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But…
- No great wisdom can be reached without sacrifice.
- The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.
- It is hard to have patience with people who say, ‘There is no death’ or ‘Death doesn’t matter.’ There is death. And whatever is matters.…
- Don't let your happiness depend on something you may lose.
- An almost perfect relationship with his father was the earthly root of all his wisdom. From his own father, he said, he first learned that…
- Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different...
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- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom. — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- You teach best what you most need to learn. — Richard Bach
- Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand. — Neil Armstrong
- The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold