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We should have with each person the relationship of one conception of the universe to another conception of the universe, and not to a part of the universe.
Death | Desire | Immortality |
The first symptom of death is birth.
The mental powers acquire their full robustness when the cheek loses its ruddy hue, and the limbs their elastic step; and pale thought sits on manly brows, and the watchman, as he walks his rounds, sees the student's lamp burning far into the silent night.
Hope | Immortality |
If anything had or could have a value equal to gold and silver, it would require no tender law; and if it had not that value it ought not to have such a law; and, therefore, all tender laws are tyrannical and unjust and calculated to support fraud and oppression.
Death | Immortality | Man |
The Theophilanthropists do not call themselves the disciples of such or such a man. They avail themselves of the wise precepts that have been transmitted by writers of all countries and in all ages.
Existence | Immortality |
ust surrender to the wave of the Great Change. Neither happy nor afraid. And when it is time to go, then simply go - without any unnecessary fuss.
That the sage is a sage is due solely to the fact that his mind is completely dominated by heaven-given principles, and not hampered by passion.
Heaven | Immortality |
And yet I adore him. I think he's quite crazy, and with no place or occupation in life, and far from happy, and philosophically irresponsible and there is absolutely nobody like him.
I insist the world know how much I loved my Lolita, this Lolita, pale and polluted, and big with another's child, but still gray-eyed, still sooty-lashed, still auburn and almond, still Carmencita, still mine; Changeons de vie, ma Carmen, allons vivre quelque part o? nous ne serons jamais s?par?s; Ohio? The wilds of Massachusetts? No matter, even if those eyes of hers would fade to myopic fish, and her nipples swell and crack, and her lovely young velvety delicate delta be tainted and torn--even then I would go mad with tenderness at the mere sight of your dear wan face, at the mere sound of your raucous young voice, my Lolita.
Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.
Immortality | Thinking |
I became aware of the world's tenderness, the profound beneficence of all that surrounded me, the blissful bond between me and all of creation, and I realized that the joy I sought in you was not only secreted within you, but breathed around me everywhere, in the speeding street sounds, in the hem of a comically lifted skirt, in the metallic yet tender drone of the wind, in the autumn clouds bloated with rain. I realized that the world does not represent a struggle at all, or a predaceous sequence of chance events, but the shimmering bliss, beneficent trepidation, a gift bestowed upon us and unappreciated.
Immortality | Thinking |
Time is rhythm: the insect rhythm of a warm humid night, brain ripple, breathing, the drum in my temple—these are our faithful timekeepers; and reason corrects the feverish beat.
Hope | Husband | Immortality | Love | Pity | Thinking | Will | Writing | Blessed |
He stretched himself. He rose. He stood upright in complete nakedness before us, and while the trumpets pealed Truth! Truth! Truth! we have no choice left but confess – he was a woman.
Genius | Good | Ideas | Immortality | Need | Rest | Story | Style | Will |
Talkative persons easily step into scandal mongering. Too much talk and a tongue addicted to scandal are twins; they work together and in unison.
One should, perform karma with nonchalance without expecting the benefits because sooner of later one shall definitely gets the fruits.
Charity | Immortality | Wealth |
The insane, for the most part, reason correctly, but from false principles, while they do not perceive that their premises are incorrect.
Better | Hunger | Immortality | World |
Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility.
Better | Death | Immortality | Individual | Self |
A large portion of human beings live not so much in themselves as in what they desire to be. - They create an ideal character the perfections of which compensate in some degree for imperfections of their own.
Immortality | Instinct | Life | Life | Words |
I do not believe that the basic ideas of the theory of relativity can lay claim to a relationship with the religious sphere that is different from that of scientific knowledge in general. I see this connection in the fact that profound interrelationships in the objective world can Ije comprehended through simple logical concepts. To be sure, in the theory of relativity this is the case in particularly full measure.
Authority | Ethics | Immortality |
Enough! we're tired, my heart and I. We sit beside the headstone thus, and wish that name were carved for us. The moss reprints more tenderly the hard types of the mason's knife, as Heaven's sweet life renews earth's life with which we're tired, my heart and I... In this abundant earth no doubt is little room for things worn out: disdain them, break them, throw them by! And if before the days grew rough we once were loved, used, - well enough, I think, we've fared, my heart and I.
Grief | Immortality | Love | Mortal |