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The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

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With regard to philosophical metaphysics, I always see increasing numbers who have attained to the negative goal, but as yet few who climb a few rungs backwards; one ought to look out, perhaps, over the last steps of the ladder, but not try to stand upon them.

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Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.

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Tis a cruelty to load a fallen man.

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There is moderation in everything.

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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

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The good of the people is the greatest law.

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The philosophic mind inclines always to an elaborate life--the life of Goethe or of Leonardo da Vinci; but the life of the poet isintense--the life of Blake or of Dante--taking into its centre the life that surrounds it and flinging it abroad again amid planetary music.

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The myriad-minded man, our, and all men's, Shakespeare, has in this piece presented us with a legitimate farce in exactest consonance with the philosophical principles and character of farce, as distinguished from comedy and from entertainments. A proper farce is mainly distinguished from comedy by the licence allowed, and even required, in the fable, in order to produce strange and laughable situations. The story need not be probable, it is enough that it is possible.

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Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

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I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.

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There is no possible source of evil except good.

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'Thou shalt not kill' does not apply to murder of one's own kind only, but to all living beings and this commandment was inscribed in the human breast long before it was proclaimed from Sinai.

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If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

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In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross.

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There is today-in a time when old beliefs are withering-a kind of philosophical hunger, a need to know who we are and how we got here. It is an on-going search, often unconscious, for a cosmic perspective for humanity

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War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.

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Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

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What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?

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If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.

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