#values

When the Way relies on little accomplishments and words rely on vain show, then we have the rights and wrongs of the

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One recognizes one’s course by discovering the paths that stray from it.

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The walking-stick that looks pretty so long as one carries it, but bends as soon as you rest your weight upon it, is

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Perhaps you regard this thinking about myself as a waste of time – but how can I be a logician before I’m a human being! Far

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Ethics does not treat of the world. Ethics must be a condition of the world, like logic.

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Man is man the world over. This fact is affirmed and admitted in any effort to deny it. The sentiments we exhibit, whether

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After Carpenter Shi had returned home, the oak tree appeared to him in a dream and said, “What are you comparing me with?

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There is only one proof of spirit and that is the spirit’s proof within oneself. Whoever demands something else may get

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Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is therefore nothing else but

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Poetry and philosophy are, depending on one’s point of view, different spheres, different forms, or simply the component

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The orthodox tend to think that people who, like the postmodernists and me, believe neither in God nor in some

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For my own part, I cannot without grief see so much as an innocent beast pursued and killed that has no defense, and from

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Great delights come from beholding fine deeds.

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It is well known to all experienced minds that our firmest convictions are often dependent on subtle impressions for which

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So you want to live ‘according to nature?’ Oh, you noble Stoics, what a fraud is in this phrase! Imagine something like nature,...

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Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find

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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is

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Nothing is more highly to be prized than the value of each day.

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Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is

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Many conservative writers have contended that the tendency to equality in modern social movements is the expression of envy.

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If, when it’s time to depart, you shunt everything aside except your mind and the divinity within… if it isn’t ceasing to

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What is meaningful cannot in fact be isolated… We achieve understanding within a circular movement from particular facts to

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A mind enclosed in language is in prison.

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There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing,

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