He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.
The sage does not hoard. Having bestowed all he has on others, he has yet more; having given all he has to others, he is richer still.
LaoTzu
When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish.
By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.
Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.
He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.
He who is contented is rich.
He who knows he has enough is rich.
He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.
He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.
George Orwell
Most revolutionaries are potential Tories, because they imagine that everything can be put right by altering the shape of society; once that change is effected, as it sometimes is, they see no need for any other.
Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.
Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.
One of the effects of a safe and civilized life is an immense oversensitiveness which makes all the primary emotions somewhat disgusting. Generosity is as painful as meanness, gratitude as hateful as ingratitude.
But the thing that I saw in your face no power can disinherit: No bomb that ever burst shatters the crystal spirit.
Progress and reaction have both turned out to be swindles. Seemingly, there is nothing left but quietism -- robbing reality of its terrors by simply submitting to it.
One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.
To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.
To say I accept in an age like our own is to say that you accept concentration-camps, rubber truncheons, Hitler, Stalin, bombs, aeroplanes, tinned food, machine guns, putsches, purges, slogans, Bedaux belts, gas-masks, submarines, spies, provocateurs, press-censorship, secret prisons, aspirins, Hollywood films and political murder.
Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about their own orthodoxy. Good novels are written by people who are not frightened.
The child thinks of growing old as an almost obscene calamity, which for some mysterious reason will never happen to itself. All who have passed the age of thirty are joyless grotesques, endlessly fussing about things of no importance and staying alive without, so far as the child can see, having anything to live for. Only child life is real life.
To accept civilization as it is practically means accepting decay.
Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.
All animals are equalBut some animals are more equal than others
WAR IS PEACEFREEDOM IS SLAVERYIGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.
The first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
William Osler
Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Seneca (Seneca the Elder)
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.
The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.
Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.
He has committed the crime who profits by it.
One crime has to be concealed by another.
Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.
Imagination... its limits are only those of the mind itself.
Rod Serling
Seeing is not always believing.
A promise made is a debt unpaid.
Robert William Service
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