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When we ask for love, we don't ask others to be fair to us-but rather to care for us, to be considerate of us. There is a world of difference here between demanding justice... and begging or pleading for love. Mortimer Adler

Love Justice World Care Demanding Others Pleading Considerate Rather Between Fair Begging Difference Ask Us Here

There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world. Nikolai Berdyaev

Truth World Pure Clash Between Tragic Up Burns

Of all the arguments against voluntary euthanasia, the most influential is the 'slippery slope': once we allow doctors to kill patients, we will not be able to limit the killing to those who want to die. Peter Singer

More often there's a compromise between ethics and expediency. Peter Singer

Expediency Ethics More Compromise Between Often

I give the name of cosmic sense to the more or less confused affinity that binds us psychologically to the All which envelops us. The existence of this feeling is indubitable, and apparently as old as the beginning of thought... The cosmic sense must have been born as soon as man found himself facing the forest, the sea and the stars. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Man Confused Old Thought Feeling Beginning Sense Stars Must Born Cosmic Give More More Or Less Facing Soon Name Himself Been Existence Affinity Forest Psychologically Which Us Sea Less Apparently Binds Found

Death surrenders us totally to God: it makes us enter into him; we must, in return, surrender ourselves to death with absolute love and self-abandonment since, when death comes, all we can do is to surrender ourselves completely to the domination and guidance of God. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Love Death God Surrender Guidance Enter Ourselves Must Totally Absolute Since Him Return Makes Domination Us

Christ has conquered death, not only by suppressing its evil effects, but by reversing its sting. By virtue of Christ's rising again, nothing any longer kills inevitably, but everything is capable of becoming the blessed touch of the divine hands, the blessed influence of the will of God upon our lives. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Death God Christ Will Evil Blessed Nothing Virtue Our Everything Our Lives Touch Rising Only Divine Longer Suppressing Becoming Inevitably Reversing Sting Effects Hands Any Influence Again Capable Conquered Lives

Death is acceptable only if it represents the physically necessary passage toward a union, the condition of a metamorphosis. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Death Only Physically Toward Acceptable Passage Condition Represents Union Necessary

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern. Plato

No-One Well Govern Governs Wants Teach Teaches Who Ever

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune. Plato

Great Ignorance Learning Training Evil Bad Neither All Things Misfortune Excessive Terrible Cleverness Greater Greatest Accompanied Nor Much Things

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class. Plato

Happiness Class Construction State Our Object Greatest Greatest Happiness Any Whole

Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails. Plato

Man Animal Nails Feet Flat Two

No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return. Plato

Love No-One Return Does His Friend Who

He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power. Plato

Power Wish Steals He Same Little Much Less Who

States are as the men, they grow out of human characters. Plato

Men States Out Characters Human Grow

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal. Plato

Knowledge Ignorance Learning Too Much Evil Too Extreme Entire More Terrible Cleverness Greatest Accompanied Being Far Much Ill Fatal

Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them. Plutarch

Good Enemies Endeavor Carefully Imitating Our Faulty Those Good Qualities Excel Excellent Observe Qualities Wherein Them Us Avoiding Let Us

It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors. Plutarch

Our Indeed Ancestors Glory Thing Belongs Desirable

Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends. Plutarch

Adversity Balance Prosperity Scale Only Weigh Friends Just

It's just that if you're not disruptive everything seems to be repeated endlessly - not so much the good things but the bland things - the ordinary things - the weaker things get repeated- the stronger things get suppressed and held down and hidden. Robert Adamson

We will not find the inner strength to evolve to a higher level if we do not inwardly develop this profound feeling that there is something higher than ourselves. Rudolf Steiner

Strength Will Feeling Ourselves Evolve Find Something Higher Higher Level Develop Inwardly Than Level Inner Profound Inner Strength

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