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The useful and the beautiful are never separated.
Ever building, building to the clouds, still building higher, and never reflecting that the poor narrow basis cannot sustain the giddy tottering column.
Silence is not the absence of sound, but the absence of self.
The right feeling is, “How strange this is! I never thought of that before, and yet I see it is true.”
That we may merge into the deep and dazzling darkness, vanish into it, dissolve in it forever in an unbelievable bliss beyond imagination, for absolute nothingness represents absolute bliss.
Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. It may even be assumed that just as the unconscious affects us, so the increase in our consciousness affects the unconscious.
Every great mind seeks to labor for eternity. All men are captivated by immediate advantage; great minds alone are excited by the prospect of distant good.
What is virtue but repose of the mind?
Plunged in thy depth of mercy let me die
The death that every soul that lives desires.
Nothing in all creation is so like God as stillness.
To speak and to offend, with some people, are but one and the same thing.
To see small beginnings is clearness of sight.
Let not your heart be troubled.
We do not have to understand new things, but by dint of patience, effort and method to come to understand with our whole self the truths which are evident.
This is the greatest work of all. In order to show and release her powers, Nature has no need of fortune; she shows herself equally on all levels, and behind a curtain as well as without one. To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquility in our conduct. Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately. All other things, to rule, to lay up treasure, to build, are at most but little appendices and props.
Sweet are the uses of adversity.
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open?
I long to accomplish a great and noble task. But it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
