The most crucial problem with intellectual learning is that it receives the unknown on the grounds of the known.
Learn, or you'll be made to learn.
The greatest tragedy with a sceptic is that he cannot consign himself to truth, however he may see it.
Friends; the more, the less!
Whenever we think, we construct a world that is centred upon the object of our thinking; whenever we act, we reconstruct a world that is centred upon ourselves.
Peace, love and beauty are goals shared by every human heart. The question is whether our minds recognize them as such.
The concept of Free Will makes no sense unless associated, somehow or the other, with Absolute Determinism; it is just as a man cannot walk without gravity arresting and spurring his pace simultaneous...
An apparent misfortune of man is that neither good nor evil is an agency itself; both are equally passive choices. Man himself is the ultimate agency. He has the power to realize and activate the dead...
Encouraging virtue is better than suppressing vice.
The intelligent talk and the wise listen.
Falsehood of a good man is better than truth of a bad one.
Knowledge cannot be maintained without character.
Man is slave of emotions when they arise, and master of them when they don't.
The only satisfactory thing about death is that our knowledge about it is unsatisfactory.
One only knows the sins of democracy against virtue when one is worthy enough to suffer from them.
Artist is not human, but humanity.
World is so full of idiots that you can't even imagine to escape. The only solution is isolation. But it still spares one!
Comparison is the most abused intellectual tool of all. We compare men and women, man and God, good and bad, equal and unequal, forgetting that this sin only results in a punishment so severe that we...
Logic is a mere iceberg in the Mediterranean of wisdom.
Religion and philosophy have different logics, speak different languages. Their logics are mutually exclusive, languages sometimes overlapping. It is hard to find something really common in them. I th...
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