No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
Nothing in nature is by chance... Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure....you are above everything distressing.
If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.
What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
Men believe themselves to be free, simply because they are conscious of their actions, and unconscious of the causes whereby those actions are determined.
The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition.
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
I saw that all things I feared, and which feared me, had nothing good or bad in them save insofar as the mind was affected by them.
The holy word of God is on everyone's lips...but...we see almost everyone presenting their own versions of God's word, with the sole purpose of using religion as a pretext for making others think as they do.
When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
God is not He who is, but That which is.
The human mind cannot be absolutely destroyed along with the body, but something of it remains, which is eternal.
The supreme mystery of despotism, its prop and stay, is to keep men in a state of deception, and with the specious title of religion to cloak the fear by which they must be held in check, so that they will fight for their servitude as if for salvation.
He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
He who regulates everything by laws, is more likely to arouse vices than reform them.
The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.
Minds are not conquered by force, but by love and high-mindedness.
Indulge yourself in pleasures only in so far as they are necessary for the preservation of health.
Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.
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