FridayFeb 27, 2026
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What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving At the ideal perfection of truth.
Science deals only with phenomena, and is but charlatanism when it babbles about the powers or causes that produce these, or what the things are, in essence, of which it gives us merely the names.
Life is what we make it, and the world is what we make it. The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man are fixed upon the same creation; but very different are the aspects which it bears to them.
Symbols were the almost universal language of ancient theology. They were the most obvious method of instruction; for, like nature herself, they addressed the understanding through the eye...
The attachment to solitude is the surest preservative from the ills of life.
The double law of attraction and radiation or of sympathy And antipathy, of fixedness and movement, which is the principle of Creation, and the perpetual cause of life.
The Word of God is the universal and invisible Light, cognizable by the senses, that emits its blaze in the Sun, Moon, Planets, and other Stars.
The universal medicine for the Soul is the Supreme Reason And Absolute Justice; for the mind, mathematical and practical Truth; for the body, the Quintessence, a combination of light and gold.
To work with the hands or brain, according to our requirements and our capacities, to do that which lies before us to do, is more honorable than rank and title.
Virtue is but heroic bravery, to do the thing thought to be true, in spite of all enemies of flesh or spirit, in despite of all temptations or menaces.
We each have some dominant defect, by which the enemy can grasp us. In some it is vanity, in others indolence, inmost egotism. Let a cunning and evil spirit possess himself of this, and you are lost.
The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.
Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; an
Knowledge is convertible into power, and axioms into rules of utility and duty. But knowledge itself is not Power. Wisdom is Power; and her Prime Minister is Justice, which is the perfected law of Truth.
A Human Thought is an actual EXISTENCE, and a Force and Power, capable of acting upon and controlling matter as well as mind.
A man, foreseeing that another will do a certain act, and in nowise controlling or even influencing him may use that Action as an instrument to effect his own purposes.
A war for a great principle ennobles a nation. A war for commercial supremacy, upon some shallow pretext, is despicable, and more than aught else demonstrates to what immeasurable depths of baseness men and nations can de
All eyes do not see alike. Even the visible creation is not, for all who look upon it, of one form and one color. Our brain is a book printed within and without, and the two writings are, with all men, more or less confused.
Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius.
Everything actual must also first have been possible, before having actual existence.
Everywhere in the Universe, what we call Life and Movement results from a continual conflict of Forces or Impulses. Whenever that active antagonism ceases, the immobility and inertia, which are Death, result.
Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted.
It is Genius that gets Power; and its prime lieutenants Are Force and Wisdom. The unruliest of men bend before the leader that has the sense to see and the will to do.
To hear patiently, to weigh deliberately and dispassionately, and to decide to impartially; these are the chief duties of a Judge.
What we have done for ourselves dies with us; what we have done for others remains and is immortal.
He who endeavors to serve, to benefit, and improve the world, is like a swimmer, who struggles against a rapid current, in a river lashed into angry waves by the winds. Often they roar over his head, often they beat him back and baffle him. Most men yield to the stress of the current... Only here and there the stout, strong heart and vigorous arms struggle on toward ultimate success.
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