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We have lost the power even o...

We have lost the power even of imagining what the ancient idealization of poverty could have meant: the liberation from material attachments, the unbribed soul, the manlier indifference, the paying our way by what we are and not by what we have, the right to fling away our life at any moment irresponsibly - the more athletic trim, in short, the moral fighting shape.

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All natural goods perish. Ric...

All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.

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Serious development of the pe...

Serious development of the personality begins at the closet door.

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Need and struggle are what ex...

Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us; our hour of triumph is what brings the void.

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I believe there is no source ...

I believe there is no source of deception in the investigation of nature which can compare with a fixed belief that certain kinds of phenomena are IMPOSSIBLE.

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If we remembered everything, ...

If we remembered everything, we should on most occasions be as ill off as if we remembered nothing. It would take us as long to recall a space of time as it took the original time to elapse, and we should never get ahead with our thinking. All recollected times undergo, accordingly, what M. Ribot calls foreshortening; and this foreshortening is due to the omission of an enormous number of facts which filled them.

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Life is one long struggle bet...

Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases, and opposite conclusions prompted by our instinctive perception of them.

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Our minds thus grow in spots;...

Our minds thus grow in spots; and like grease-spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible: we keep unaltered as much of our old knowledge, as many of our old prejudices and beliefs, as we can. We patch and tinker more than we renew. The novelty soaks in; it stains the ancient mass; but it is also tinged by what absorbs it.

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Life feels like a real fight ...

Life feels like a real fight - as if there were something really wild in the universe which we, with all our idealities and faithfulnesses, are needed to redeem.

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Our belief at the beginning o...

Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture.

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Human beings are born into th...

Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and intimacies … and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of mere inertia.

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A new position of responsibil...

A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.

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Habit is thus the enormous fl...

Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.

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We may be in the Universe as ...

We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.

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It is so human a book that I ...

It is so human a book that I don't see how belief in its divine authority can survive the reading of it.

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Fear of life in one form or a...

Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.

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True is the name for whatever...

True is the name for whatever idea starts the verification process, useful is the name for its completed function in experience

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I do indeed disbelieve that w...

I do indeed disbelieve that we or any other mortal men can attain on a given day to absolutely incorrigible and unimprovable truth about such matters of fact as those with which religions deal. But I reject this dogmatic ideal not out of a perverse delight in intellectual instability. I am no lover of disorder and doubt as such. Rather do I fear to lose truth by this pretension to possess it already wholly.

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From the Vedas we learn a pra...

From the Vedas we learn a practical art of surgery, medicine, music, house building under which mechanized art is included. They are encyclopedia of every aspect of life, culture, religion, science, ethics, law, cosmology and meteorology.

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Philosophy lives in words, bu...

Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation. There is in the living act of perception always something that glimmers and twinkles and will not be caught, and for which reflection comes too late.

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....