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When children draw or do rudimentary painting, the whole human being develops an interest in what is being done. This is why we should allow writing to develop from drawing. Rudolf Steiner
Writing Human Being Painting Rudimentary Draw Drawing Allow Develop Develops Done Human Being Children Interest Being Done Should Whole Why
To silence criticism is to silence freedom. Sidney Hook
Freedom Silence Criticism
Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat. Simone Weil
Conflict Cause More Likely Than Wheat International Petroleum
Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link. Simone Weil
God Communication Communicate Separation Every Other Knocking Also Prisoners Link Wall Same Cells Which Them Us Means Separates Each Whose Thing Two
Liberal democracy - as you know, in the old days, we were saying we want socialism with a human face. Today's left effectively offers global capitalism with a human face, more tolerance, more rights and so on. So the question is, is this enough or not? Here I remain a Marxist: I think not. Slavoj Zizek
Today Saying Democracy You Capitalism Rights Socialism Old Face Tolerance Think Enough Liberal Liberal Democracy More Remain Marxist Days Global Know Were Question Left Effectively Offers Human Want Old Days Human Face Here
Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further. Soren Kierkegaard
Faith Generation Human Being Passion Every Further Highest Come None May Human Being Far Many
Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood. Soren Kierkegaard
Time Kind Scenes Through Retain Individuals Like Concepts Histories Childhood Just Incapable Homesickness
Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer. Soren Kierkegaard
Great Trouble Living Equalizer Denominator Common Common Denominator
Spirituality is indeed the master key of the Indian mind; the sense of the infinitive is native to it. Sri Aurobindo
Key Mind Spirituality Master Sense Indeed Indian Native
It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results. Sun Tzu
Great Wise Army Intelligence Achieve Will Ruler General Only Purposes Results Great Results Highest Spying Use Who Thereby Enlightened
If fighting is sure to result in victory, than you must fight, even though the ruler forbid it; if fighting will not result in victory, then you must not fight even at the ruler's bidding. Sun Tzu
You Fight Result Victory Will Fighting Ruler Though Must Forbid Bidding Sure Than Then Even
The real spiritual progress of the aspirant is measured by the extent to which he achieves inner tranquility. Swami Sivananda
Spiritual Progress He Real Tranquility Achieves Which Measured Inner Extent
Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts. Thomas Carlyle
Silence Must Both Divine Also Dead Learn Human Arts Therefore Speech
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world. Thomas Carlyle
You Man Yourself World Honest Man Rascal Make Sure May Then Less Honest
Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom. Thomas Carlyle
Kingdom
No person is important enough to make me angry. Thomas Carlyle
Angry Me Important Enough Make Person
Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation. Thomas Hobbes
Force Same Believing Gravitation
Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves. Thomas Hobbes
Nature Wise Will Men Believe Eloquent Others More Learned Witty May Acknowledge Themselves Many Hardly
When you look for the environment, you find things that are in it: a hammer, a smartphone, some rusty nails, a shed, a spider, some grass, a tree. So there is a big difference between environmentality and Nature. Nature is definitely something you can point to: it is 'over yonder' in the mountains, in my DNA, under the pavement. Timothy Morton
Nature You Spider Big Mountains Grass Tree Definitely Find Some Something Rusty Point Environment Nails Between Over Look Shed Big Difference Hammer Difference Pavement Things
Wrong people are wrong because they use their freedom to deny it to others. William A. Dembski
Freedom People Others Wrong Because Deny Use
If you do not create your destiny, you will have your fate inflicted upon you. William Irwin Thompson
You Fate Will Destiny Inflicted Create Your
Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe. William Irwin Thompson
Failure Imagination Embodied Emergence Catastrophe Feel Felt Stimulated Domain Often Sensation Experienced Cannot
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. William James
Human Being Miserable Nothing Indecision More Habitual Than Human Being Whom
If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience. William James
Good Experience Feeling Valid Would Would-Be Could Merely Feeling Good Drunkenness Supremely Human Decide Human Experience
We cannot observe external things without some degree of Thought; nor can we reflect upon our Thoughts, without being influenced in the course of our reflection by the Things which we have observed. William Whewell
Thoughts Reflection Thought Degree Reflect Our We Cannot Some Observe Observed Course Without Nor Being Influenced Cannot Which Things External External Things
Those who realize their folly are not true fools. Zhuangzi
Fools Those Folly True Realize Who
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