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People see the world not as it is, but as they are.
People see the world not as it is, but as they are.
Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.
Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.
There is a point where in the mystery of existence contradictions meet; where movement is not all movement and stillness read more
There is a point where in the mystery of existence contradictions meet; where movement is not all movement and stillness is not all stillness; where the idea and the form, the within and the without, are united; where infinite becomes finite, yet not
I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.
I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.
The way we imagine ourselves to appear to another person is an essential element in our conception of ourselves. In read more
The way we imagine ourselves to appear to another person is an essential element in our conception of ourselves. In other words, I am not what I think I am, and I am not what you think I am. I am what I think you think I am.
Keep doing good deeds long enough, and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself.
Keep doing good deeds long enough, and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself.
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
Time goes, you say? Ah, no! Alas, Time stays, we go.
Time goes, you say? Ah, no! Alas, Time stays, we go.
Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, read more
Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness.