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Tue, 18 Nov 2025 - 01:07

This is the ideal world, a perfect world of equality, fraternity, harmony, welfare, and justice.

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Sun, 7 Dec 2025 - 02:19

Most men would feel insulted, if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now.

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Sun, 7 Dec 2025 - 02:19

I cannot read a sentence in the book of the Hindoos without being elevated as upon the table-land of the Ghauts. It has such a rhythm as the winds of the desert, such a tide as the Ganges, and seems as superior to criticism as the Himmaleh Mounts. Even at this late hour, unworn by time with a native and inherent dignity it wears the English dress as indifferently as the Sanscrit.

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Fri, 28 Nov 2025 - 20:15

There are also Idols formed by the intercourse and association of men with each other, which I call Idols of the Market Place, on account of the commerce and consort of men there. For it is by discourse that men associate, and words are imposed according to the apprehension of the vulgar. And therefore the ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obstructs the understanding. Nor do the definitions or explanations wherewith in some things learned men are wont to guard and defend themselves, by any means set the matter right. But words plainly force and overrule the understanding, and throw all into confusion, and lead men away into numberless empty controversies and idle fancies.

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Tue, 9 Dec 2025 - 01:12

The doctrine that there is as much science in a subject as... mathematics in it, or as much... measurement or 'precision' in it, rests upon... misunderstanding.

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Mon, 8 Dec 2025 - 01:37

A man who has trained himself in goodness come to have certain direct intuitions about character, about the relations between human beings, about his own position in the world - intuitions that are quite different from the intuitions of the average sensual man.

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Fri, 5 Dec 2025 - 22:45

Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.

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Sun, 7 Dec 2025 - 22:49

I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.

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Fri, 5 Dec 2025 - 22:45

A single part of physics occupies the lives of many men, and often leaves them dying in uncertainty.

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Sun, 7 Dec 2025 - 06:08

As a beast of toil an ox is fixed capital. If he is eaten, he no longer functions as an instrument of labour, nor as fixed capital either.

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Sat, 6 Dec 2025 - 21:50

Politics is concerned with herds rather than with individuals, and the passions which are important in politics are, therefore, those in which the various members of a given herd can feel alike.

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Fri, 5 Dec 2025 - 22:45

To hold a pen is to be at war.

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Thu, 20 Nov 2025 - 03:19

Force overcome by force.

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Thu, 6 Nov 2025 - 23:24

A genius and an Apostle are qualitatively different, they are definitions which each belong in their own spheres: the sphere of immanence, and the sphere of transcendence.

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Mon, 8 Dec 2025 - 23:17

Blood doubly unites us, for we share the same blood and we have spilled blood.

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Thu, 4 Dec 2025 - 22:44

Nature does nothing in vain, and in the use of means to her goals she is not prodigal. Her giving to man reason and the freedom of the will which depends upon it is clear indication of her purpose. Man accordingly was not to be guided by instinct, not nurtured and instructed with ready-made knowledge; rather, he should bring forth everything out of his own resources.

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Sun, 30 Nov 2025 - 01:59

A little folly is desirable in him that will not be guilty of stupidity.

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Sun, 7 Dec 2025 - 02:53

He thought human life a poor thing at best, after the freshness of youth and of unsatisfied curiosity had gone by. This was a topic on which he did not often speak, especially, it may be supposed, in the presence of young persons: but when he did, it was with an air of settled and profound conviction. He would sometimes say, that if life were made what it might be, by good government and good education, it would be worth having: but he never spoke with anything like enthusiasm even of that possibility.

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Fri, 12 Dec 2025 - 05:30

For anyone who at the end of Western philosophy can and must still question philosophically, the decisive question is no longer merely "What basic character do beings manifest?" or "How may the being of beings be characterized?" but "What is this 'being' itself?" The decisive question is that of "the meaning of being," not merely that of the being of beings.

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Wed, 3 Dec 2025 - 23:42

The more exquisite any good is, of which a small specimen is afforded us, the sharper is the evil, allied to it; and few exceptions are found to this uniform law of nature. The most sprightly wit borders on madness; the highest effusions of joy produce the deepest melancholy; the most ravishing pleasures are attended with the most cruel lassitude and disgust; the most flattering hopes make way for the severest disappointments. And, in general, no course of life has such safety (for happiness is not to be dreamed of) as the temperate and moderate, which maintains, as far as possible, a mediocrity, and a kind of insensibility, in every thing. As the good, the great, the sublime, the ravishing are found eminently in the genuine principles of theism; it may be expected, from the analogy of nature, that the base, the absurd, the mean, the terrifying will be equally discovered in religious fictions and chimeras.

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Thu, 6 Nov 2025 - 23:24

When you are reading God's Word, it is not the obscure passages that bind you but what you understand, and with that you comply at once. If you understood only one single passage in all of Holy Scripture, well, then you must do that first of all, but you do not first have to sit down and ponder the obscure passages.

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Tue, 18 Nov 2025 - 01:07

How abundantly do spiritual beings display the powers that belong to them! We look for them, but do not see them; we listen to, but do not hear them; yet they enter into all things, and there is nothing without them.

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Tue, 18 Nov 2025 - 01:07

Sincerity is the end and beginning of things; without sincerity there would be nothing. On this account, the superior man regards the attainment of sincerity as the most excellent thing.

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Tue, 11 Nov 2025 - 02:01

What is a rebel? A man who says no. Chapter 1

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Mon, 8 Dec 2025 - 23:17

Imagination is not an empirical or superadded power of consciousness, it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes its freedom.

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Sat, 6 Dec 2025 - 21:50

A man might say, with enough truth to justify a joke: "Science is what we know, and philosophy is what we don't know." But it should be added that philosophical speculation as to what we do not yet know has shown itself a valuable preliminary to exact scientific knowledge.

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Sun, 7 Dec 2025 - 19:56

We must have kings, and we must have nobles. Nature provides such in every society, - only let us have the real instead of the titular. Let us have our leading and our inspiration from the best. In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise. Let the powers be well directed, directed by love, and they would everywhere be greeted with joy and honor.

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Fri, 7 Nov 2025 - 03:04

[I]t is impossible for motion to subsist without place, and void, and time.

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Mon, 8 Dec 2025 - 21:06

But you must see that if two things are alike, then it is a further question whether the first is copied from the second, or the second from the first, or both from a third.''What would the third be?''Some have thought that all these loves were copies of our love for the Landlord.'

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Sun, 30 Nov 2025 - 04:29

So in all human affairs one notices, if one examines them closely, that it is impossible to remove one inconvenience without another emerging.

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Tue, 18 Nov 2025 - 01:07

The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions. James Legge translation. Variant translations: The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his actions. The greater man does not boast of himself, But does what he must do. A good man does not give orders, but leads by example.

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Sun, 7 Dec 2025 - 06:08

An organised system of machines, to which motion is communicated by the transmitting mechanism from a central automation, is the most developed form of production by machinery.

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Thu, 4 Dec 2025 - 00:20

I have said more than once, that I hold space to be something purely relative, as time; an order of coexistences, as time is an order of successions.

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Thu, 4 Dec 2025 - 22:44

The sensuous may be exceedingly distinct, while intellectual concepts are extremely confused. The former we observe in the prototype of sensuous knowledge geometry; the latter, in the organon of all intellectual concepts, metaphysics. It is evident how much toil the latter is expending to dispel the fogs of confusion darkening the common intellect, though not always with the happy success of the former science.

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Sun, 7 Dec 2025 - 22:49

I have often thought that the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it came upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: "This is the real me!"

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Sat, 6 Dec 2025 - 21:50

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

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Sun, 7 Dec 2025 - 06:08

If this labourer were in possession of his own means of production, and was satisfied to live as a labourer, he need not work beyond beyond the time necessary for the reproduction of his means of subsistence, say 8 hours a day.

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Thu, 4 Dec 2025 - 22:44

Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me. Variant translations: Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.

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Mon, 4 Aug 2025 - 02:09

If we merely wait for the appropriate moment we will never live to see it, because this [appropriate moment] cannot arrive without the subjective conditions of the maturity of the revolutionary force being fulfilled - it can only arrive after a series of failed attempts.

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Tue, 18 Nov 2025 - 04:25

Men are at variance with the one thing with which they are in the most unbroken communion, the reason that administers the whole universe.

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Tue, 9 Dec 2025 - 01:12

I believe that the advance of science depends upon the free competition of thought, and thus upon freedom, and that it must come to an end if freedom is destroyed (though it may well continue for some time in some fields, especially in technology).

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Sun, 30 Nov 2025 - 04:29

Women are the most charitable creatures, and the most troublesome. He who shuns women passes up the trouble, but also the benefits. He who puts up with them gains the benefits, but also the trouble. As the saying goes, there's no honey without bees.

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Wed, 5 Nov 2025 - 03:58

[E]veryone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or fields for my sake will receive a hundred times as much and will inherit eternal life. 19:29

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Sun, 7 Dec 2025 - 19:56

Heroism feels and never reasons and therefore is always right.

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Mon, 8 Dec 2025 - 23:17

If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.

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Sat, 6 Dec 2025 - 21:50

Every man would like to be God, if it were possible; some few find it difficult to admit the impossibility.

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Mon, 8 Dec 2025 - 21:06

"A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered. You are speaking, Hmān, as if the pleasure were one thing and the memory another. It is all one thing. The séroni could say it better than I say it now. Not better than I could say it in a poem. What you call remembering is the last part of the pleasure, as the crah is the last part of a poem. When you and I met, the meeting was over very shortly, it was nothing. Now it is growing something as we remember it. But still we know very little about it. What it will be when I remember it as I lie down to die, what it makes in me all my days till then-that is the real meeting. The other is only the beginning of it."

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Sun, 7 Dec 2025 - 19:56

A great man quotes bravely, and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word just as good.

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Thu, 6 Nov 2025 - 23:24

That which distinguishes the Christian narrow way from the common human narrow way is the voluntary. Christ was not someone who coveted earthly things but had to be satisfied with poverty, no, he chose poverty.

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Wed, 5 Nov 2025 - 03:58

Jesus said to His disciples, "Compare me to someone and tell Me whom I am like." Simon Peter said to Him, "You are like a righteous angel." Matthew said to Him, "You are like a wise philosopher." Thomas said to Him, "Master, my mouth is wholly incapable of saying whom You are like." Jesus said, "I am not your master. Because you have drunk, you have become intoxicated by the bubbling spring which I have measured out." And He took him and withdrew and told him three things. When Thomas returned to his companions, they asked him, "What did Jesus say to you?" Thomas said to them, "If I tell you one of the things which he told me, you will pick up stones and throw them at me; a fire will come out of the stones and burn you up."(13)

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