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"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."
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Personal Development
"Men exist for the sake of one another."
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Personal Development
"A man should be upright, not be kept upright."
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Personal Development
"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."
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Personal Development
"Let no such man be trusted."
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Personal Development
"I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just."
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Personal Development
"When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind."
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Personal Development
"We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members."
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Personal Development
"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."
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Personal Development
"There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do."
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"A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor."
Death
"Meanwhile, the self can stand in the way of the Not-Self, interfering with the free flow of spiritual grace, this maintaining the self in a state of blindness, and also with the flow of animal grace, which leads to the impairment of natural functions and, in the long run, of the slower processes called structure. For each individual human being, the main practical problems are these: How can I prevent my ego from eclipsing the inner light, synteresis, scintilla animae, and so perpetuating the state of unregenerate illusion and blindness? And these practical problems remain unchallenged, even if we abandon the notion of an entelechy or physiological intelligencer, of an atman or pneuma and think, instead, in terms [of] systems..."
Spiritual
"And the two essential and indispensable things are first of all intelligence in the right most sense of that word and goodwill or the old fashion word charity/love, I mean these two things have to go hand in hand. Intelligence and knowledge without charity or goodwill would perhaps be inhuman and goodwill or charity undirected by intelligence or knowledge would be either impotent or misguided, the two have to go together."
Philosophy
"He woke once more to external reality, looked round him, knew what he saw- knewit, with a sinking sense of horror and disgust, for the recurrent deliriumof his days and nights, the nightmare of swarming indistinguishable sameness."
Reality
"But then every man is ludicrous if you look at him from outside, without taking into account what's going on in his heart and mind."
Perspective
"Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions."
Morality
"Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs."
Intelligence
"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history."
History
"Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength."
Travel
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."
Music
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