"To understand the theory which underlies all things……" — James Stephens
"To understand the theory which underlies all things is not sufficient. Theory is but the preparation for practice."
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38 Quotes by James Stephens
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Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think…
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What the heart knows today the head will understand tomorrow.
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It is by love alone that we understand anything
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Let the past be content with itself, for man needs forgetfulness as well as memory
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Tell me your past, my beloved, for a man is his past, and is to be known by it.
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A secret is a weapon and a friend.
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By having much, you are fitted to have more.
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Chaos is the first condition. Order is the first law. Continuity is the first reflection. Quietude is the first happiness.
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Women are stronger than men - they do not die of wisdom.
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We are washed both on coming into the world and on going out of it, and we take no pleasure…
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Any fool can wash himself, but every wise man knows that it is an unnecessary labour, for nature will quickly…
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A Leprecaun without a pot of gold is like a rose without perfume, a bird without a wing, or an…
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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally…
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
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The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes…
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Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of…
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and…
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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is…
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We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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