A farm regulated to production of raw commodities is not a farm at all. It is a temporary blip until the land is used up, the water polluted, the neighbors nauseated, and the air unbreathable....

We love ourselves notwithstanding our faults, and we ought to love our friends in like manner.

If you are doing what you love to do and on the way helping the humanity, then you are a success.

Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.

If you want to get drunk, get drunk with love.

Wherever you travel to see beauty, you find yourself and your reflection again and again.

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too.

Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window.

You are the vessels of endless love. Your little, soft and melting heart is always carrying it for you and all, endlessly.

How could someone possibly be that beautiful? She wondered for the hundred thousandth time. What higher power orchestrated such a perfect union of genes? Who decided that one single solitary soul deserved skin like that?...

Why is it an either or question?” the man in the striped shirt finally murmured philosophically under a sip of beer. They both stood there looking at each other in thought.

At the end of the day, we all live in this world together and to practice bringing peace onto Twitter is a huge step into bringing peace into our world.

One of the most important things I have found is that no oneschool of thought has all of the answers. Sometimes history plugs agap that science can’t fill. Often philosophy has answers thatscience relies on...

The life of the enemy . Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy’s staying alive.

Forgiveness is the highest form of a gift of kindness and it brings freedom from the prison of hatred and revenge.

The moment when someone attaches you to a philosophy or a movement, then they assign all the baggage and all the rest of the philosophy that goes with it to you. And when you want...

All beings so far have created something beyond themselves; and do you want to be the ebb of this great flood and even go back to the beasts rather than overcome man? What is the...

It is never too late to begin again. It is never too late to change and live again.

Besides our eyes, skin and the other senses through which we receive the shadows of the exterior reality, we have a ‘mental eye’ (intelligence) with which we can perceive reality as it is.

I caught this insight on the way and quickly seized the rather poor words that were closest to hand to pin it down lest it fly away again. And now it has died of these...

When you’re asked to stay out of a bar you don’t just punch the owner–you come back with your army and tear the place down, destroy the whole edifice and everything it stands for. No...

Whatever yerz’re lookin’ for, I hope yerz find it. Yerz moight’ve never lost it!

Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come to loathe our kind, precisely because they resemble us.

You know you’re successful when your wants and needs are in harmony with your current situation.

Because they do burn leaves here, the older folks do, and I remember now that I love it and always have. The way fall feels at night because of it, because of the crackling sound...

Femeia-i Paradisul ca noapte.

Don’t wait for the miracle; be the miracle.

It is absolutely bedrock to the British Army’s philosophy that a commanding officer is responsible for what goes on within his command.

My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to bathe my head in atmospheres unknown to my feet is perennial and constant. The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy...

The essence of greatness is service to others.

In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill… we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the...

It takes three to make love, not two: you, your spouse, and God. Without God people only succeed in bringing out the worst in one another. Lovers who have nothing else to do but love...

Be wise and resist pleasures. A fool always seeks pleasures.

My mind was formed by studying philosophy, Plato and that sort of thing.

There is no life without change.

I am speaking like a book, but I believe that what I am saying is true.

Success is the greatest teacher for future success.

As the natural world is one of the effects whose causes are in the spiritual world, and whose ends are in the Divine, it is impossible to understand the meaning of one link without having...

Success is a way of life with the sense of connection, compassion, and expansion of human life.

Know that the philosopher has power over the stars, and not the stars over him.

The man who says that all events are necessitated has no ground for critizing the man who says that not all events are necessitated. For according to him this is itself a necessitated event.

A philosopher philosophizes what people need to hear. A motivational speaker speaks what people want to hear.

How do I appear unthreatening when her lover’s blood is running down my chin?

What a silly thing love is!’ said the student as he walked away. ‘It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything, and it is always telling one of things...

Au milieu de l’hiver, j’ai découvert en moi un invincible été.

As every circumstance relating to so capital a discovery as this (the greatest, perhaps, that has been made in the whole compass of philosophy, since the time of Sir Isaac Newton) cannot but give pleasure...

He who writes well runs the civilization. Everyone else does the grunt work.

Love as a concrete foundation for an authentically functional civilization requires the around-the-clock labors of forgiveness. Without it, Love fails, Friendship fails, Intelligence fails, Humanity: fails.

When you are in peace with you, you will find the peace everywhere you go.

John looks at the motorcycle and he sees steel in various shapes and has negative feelings about these steel shapes and turns off the whole thing. I look at the shapes of the steel now...