When people encounter the free market and they recoil or react negatively to it, they're merely confessing that voluntaryism, trade and negotiation are foreign and threatening to them, which tells you...
At the end of your life there will be many people you won't be acquainted with.Make sure you are not among them.
There is no external solution to the problem of insecurity.
One last point. Remember that, as I said, the right direction leads not only to peace but to knowledge. When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in...
We must have the self-knowledge of our destiny and the purpose of our birth on earth
I will come to you, my friend, when I no longer need you. Then you will find a palace, not an almshouse.
In wishing to know ourselves fully, we must forget our quest for gain and seek only completion. At a certain point in our development, we no longer even seek to become Mystic, Magister, Sorcerer, or W...
The politeness which she had been brought up to practice as a duty made it impossible for her to escape; while the want of that higher species of self-command, that just consideration of others, that...
The goal of intellectual life should be to see and understand what is true, not merely to adhere to a prevailing orthodoxy.
If you know who you are, it makes you immune to criticism
Intuition: the feeling you know something when you know nothing.
If he stays inside himself, if he is contained within his nature as he is participant in the larger force, he will be able to listen, and his hearing through himself will give him secrets objects shar...
It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.
Commandment #1: Believe in yourself. Commandment #2: Get over yourself.
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
Men forget where the way leads and what they meet with every day seems strange to them.We should not act and speak like men asleep.
The immediate result of abandoned idealism is an embittered and drained man, whether he realizes it or not, whether he likes it or not. He is capable of acting in his own interest, but only to the ext...
There's such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why I'm such a troublesome person. If I was just the one Anne it would be ever so much more comfortable, but then it wouldn't be...
The essence of the charge made against the modern high-status ideal is that it is guilty of effecting a gigantic distortion of priorities, of elevating to the highest level of achievement a process of...
The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality and my life, as I write this, is vital even when sad. I may wake up sometime next year without my mind again; it is not likely to stick around...
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