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A state arises,as I conceive,out of the needs of mankind;no one is self-sufficing,but all of us have many wants

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We often confuse spiritual knowledge with spiritual attainment. Spirituality is not a matter of knowing scriptures and engaging in philosophical discussions. It is a matter of heart culture, of unmeasurable strength.

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All thought is immoral. Its very essence is destruction. If you think of anything, you kill it. Nothing survives being thought of.

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Light, seeking light, doth light of light beguile

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Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.

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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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The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

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I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach!

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I sing, not arms and the hero, but the philosophic man: he who seeks in contemplation to discover the inner will of the world, ininvention to discover the means of fulfilling that will, and in action to do that will by the so-discovered means.

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Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.

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Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.

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Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.

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An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.

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It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right.

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When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.

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Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?

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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

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A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.

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No evil can happen to a good man either in life or after death.

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Two Chinamen visiting Europe went to the theatre for the first time. One of them occupied himself with trying to understand the theatrical machinery, which he succeeded in doing. The other, despite his ignorance of the language, sought to unravel the meaning of the play. The former is like the astronomer, the latter the philosopher.

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