Wisdom Quotes - Page 129

It always makes me proud to love the world somehow- hate's so easy compared.

If critics say your work stinks it's because they want it to stink and they can make it stink by scaring you into conformity with their comfortable little standards. Standards so low that they can no longer be considered "dangerous" but set in place in their compartmental understandings.

The beginning of divine wisdom is clemency and gentleness, which arise from greatness of soul and the bearing of infirmities.

Solitude is an ocean with wonderful places hidden in its depths.

The inscrutable wisdom through which we exist is not less worthy of veneration in respect to what it denies us than in respect to what it has granted.

If you do not think well of Him because His qualities are beautiful then think well of Him because of the way He treats you.

Charity is the pure love of Christ. Let's bring it down for us lay folk to understand. Selflessness, patience. . . . a great definition. . . Charity: The ability to love the sinner and hate the sin.

How we feel is how we want to be heard.

Swallow what's bitter in the cup and move on.

She - philosophy is equally helpful to the rich and poor: neglect her, and she equally harms the young and old.

Let us then repeat and firmly fix this main point: the evil, the root evil, of that to which the term Capitalism has come to be applied, is neither its functioning for profit nor its dependence upon legally protected private property; but the presence of a Proletariat, that is of men possessing political freedom, but dispossessed of economic freedom, and existing in such large numbers in any community as to determine the tone of all that community.

The terror in which English capitalists now stand of organized proletarian resistance gives to the naturally protected craft organizations the power to receive the wages they demand. They act as they have been trained to act by capitalist society, which denies the doctrine of the Just Price, which proclaims work to be an evil and the goal of human endeavor to be the avoidance of it; which puts it up as an ideal that individuals should get as much money as they possibly can out of their fellows by any means in their power.

But if we are to retain freedom, then we can only do so by keeping the determining mass of the citizens the possessors of property with personal control over it, as individuals or as families. For property is the necessary condition of economic freedom in the full sense of that term. He that has not property is under economic servitude to him who has property, whether the possessor of it be another individual or the State.

Tis never for their wisdom that one loves the wisest...

It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.

Ripe in wisdom was he, but patient, and simple, and childlike.

I’ve never seen anyone rehabilitated by punishment.

The movement of the progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from Status to Contract.

From exertion come wisdom and purity; from sloth ignorance and sensuality.

Not by constraint or severity shall you have access to true wisdom, but by abandonment, and childlike mirth-fulness. If you would know aught, be gay before it.

The cart before the horse is neither beautiful nor useful.

If you're not having fun, you're doing something wrong.

Indeed every monad must be different from every other. For there are never in nature two beings, which are precisely alike, and in which it is not possible to find some difference which is internal, or based on some intrinsic quality.

Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.

One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.