Quotes 21 till 38 of 38.
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Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.
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The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which it will rain. But press those books as strongly as you can, you can not get out of them a drop of water. So you can not get out of all the books that contain the best precepts the smallest good deed.
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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.
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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.
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The most important of all sciences man can and must learn is the science of living so as to do the least evil and the greatest possible good.
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The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.
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There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness and truth.
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There is only one time that is important - NOW! It is the most important time because it is the only time hat we have any power.
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To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.
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True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society consider most important. Art transmits these truths from the region of perception to the region of emotion.
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Watergate is an immensely complicated scandal with a cast of characters as varied as a Tolstoy novel.
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Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.
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All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
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