Jack London Quotes, Spiritual Quotes, Heart Quotes

Mental or spiritual health, which is rationality, makes for progress, and the future demands greater and greater mental or spiritual health, greater and greater rationality. The brain must dominate and direct both the individual and society in the time to come, not the belly and the heart.

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Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.

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Socialism, when the last word is said, is merely a new economic and political system whereby more men can get food to eat.

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I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.

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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.

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It is so much easier to live placidly and complacently. Of course, to live placidly and complacently is not to live at all.

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I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.

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Out of this pack-persecution he learned two important things: how to take care of himself in a mass-fight against him; and how, on a single dog, to inflict the greatest amount of damage in the briefest space of time.

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This expression of abandon and surrender, of absolute trust, he reserved for the master alone.

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The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.

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You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

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Stupid women, and all are stupid, think the first winning of the man the final victory. Then they settle down and grow fat, and stale, and dead, and heartbroken. Alas, they are so stupid. But you, little infant-woman with your first victory, you must make your love-life an unending chain of victories. Each day you must win your man again. And when you have won the last victory, when you can find no more to win, then ends love. Finis is written, and your man wanders in strange gardens.

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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

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Men do not knowingly drink for the effect alcohol produces on the body. What they drink for is the brain-effect; and if it must come through the body, so much the worse for the body.

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He was mastered by the sheer surging of life, the tidal wave of being, the perfect joy of each separate muscle, joint, and sinew in that it was everything that was not death, that it was aglow and rampant, expressing itself in movement, flying exultantly under the stars.

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Strength is an empty shell.

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Do you know the only value life has is what life puts upon itself? And it is of course overestimated, for it is of necessity prejudiced in its own favour. Take that man I had aloft. He held on as if he were a precious thing, a treasure beyond diamonds of rubies. To you? No. To me? Not at all. To himself? Yes. But I do not accept his estimate. He sadly overrates himself. There is plenty more life demanding to be born. Had he fallen and dripped his brains upon the deck like honey from the comb, there would have been no loss to the world. The supply is too large.

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A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

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The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.

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They were not half living, or quarter living. They were simply so many bags of bones in which sparks of life fluttered faintly.

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