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William (Morley Punshon) McFee
The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps cool.
The only function that one experience can perform is to lead into another experience; and the only fulfillment we can speak of is the reaching of a certain experienced end. When one experience leads to (or can lead to) the same end as another, they agree in function.
Civilization | Day | Evil | Existence | Individual | Life | Life | Melancholy | Right |
The best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it came upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: 'This is the real me!'
There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!
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Sejong the Great, aka King Sejong, family name Yi, given name Do NULL
One of the most essential ingredients of great statesmanship is trust, and especially expressing trust.
Prince Shōtoku, born Shotoku Taishi, aka Prince Umayado or Prince Kamitsumiya
Ministers and officials should attend the Court early in the morning and retire late, for the whole day is hardly enough for the accomplishment of state business. If one is late in attending Court, emergencies cannot be met; if officials retire early, the work cannot be completed.
Control | Distinguish | Dread | Heart | Majority | Men | Right | Rule | Wise | Think |
Ishvarakrishna, aka Iśvarakṛṣṇa NULL
Non-perception may be because of extreme distance or proximity, impairment of the senses, mental unsteadiness, subtlety, interposition, suppression, blending with what is similar, and other causes.
Existence | Non-existence | Rest |
All nature is a vast symbolism; every material fact has sheathed within it a spiritual truth.
I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals, or would directly sit in judgment on creatures of his own creation. I cannot do this in spite of the fact that mechanistic causality has, to a certain extent, been placed in doubt by modern science.
Oh, Lord - responsibility. That word worked on me until I worked on it, until I looked at it carefully and broke it down into the two words that make its true definition: the ability to respond.
Wanting to get married, for me, is all about a desire to feel chosen. She went on to write that while the concept of building a life together with another adult was appealing, what really pulled at her heart was the desire for a wedding, a public event that will unequivocally prove to everyone, especially to myself, that I am precious enough to have been selected by somebody forever.
Argument | Convention | Enough | Existence | Life | Life | Nothing | Tradition | Will |
Elizabeth Janeway, born Elizabeth Ames Hall
The Goddamn human race deserves itself, and as far as I'm concerned it can have it.
What time has ever been a simple time for those who are living it?
Existence | Forgiveness | Fortitude | Talking | Understanding | Forgiveness |
But you will imagine that it is best that He should at once enable you to see clearly. If it is, you may be sure He will do it. He never makes mistakes. But He often deals far differently with His disciples. He lets them grope their way in the dark until they fully learn how blind they are, how helpless, how absolutely in need of Him. What His methods will be with you I cannot foretell. But you may be sure that He never works in an arbitrary way. He has a reason for everything He does. You may not understand why He leads you now in this way and now in that, but you may, nay, you must believe that perfection is stamped on His every act.
All that shimmers on the surface of the world, all that we call interesting, is the fruit of ignorance and inebriation.
Getting up in the middle of the night, I walked around my room with the certainty of being chosen and criminal, a double privilege natural to the sleepless, revolting or incomprehensible for the captives of daytime logic.
Existence | Forgiveness | Happy | Light | Soul | Will | Forgiveness |
I have never taken myself for a being. A non-citizen, a marginal type, a nothing who exists only by the excess, by the superabundance of his nothingness.
Awareness | Curiosity | Existence | Impossibility | Awareness |