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  • Hence, the less government we have, the better,--the fewer laws, and the less confided power. The antidote to this abuse of formalGovernment, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual; the appearance of the principal to supersede the proxy; the appearance of the wise man, of whom the existing government, is, it must be owned, but a shabby imitation.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Wise Quotes , Character Quotes
  • The agnostic, the skeptic, is neurotic, but this does not imply a false philosophy; it implies the discovery of facts to which he does not know how to adapt himself. The intellectual who tries to escape from neurosis by escaping from the facts is merely acting on the principle that “where ignorance is bliss, ‘tis folly to be wise.
    • 6 years ago



    Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Wise Quotes , Philosophy Quotes
  • When your weapons are dulled and ardour damped, your strength exhausted and treasure spent, neighboring rulers will take advantage of your distress to act. And even though you have wise counsellors, none will be able to lay good plans for the future. Thus, while we have heard of blundering swiftness in war, we have not yet seen a clever operation that was prolonged.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Sun Tzu Quotes , Wise Quotes , Clever Quotes
  • True compassion is not just an emotional response, but a firm commitment founded on reason. Therefore, a truly compassionate attitude toward others does not change, even if they behave negatively. Through universal altruism, you develop a feeling of responsibility for others: the wish to help them actively overcome their problems.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Change Quotes , Wise Quotes
  • Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good. Let us therefore study the incidents in this as philosophy to learn wisdom from and none of them as wrongs to be avenged.
    • 6 years ago



    Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Wise Quotes , Strong Quotes
  • If you love a flower, don’t pick it up. Because if you pick it up it dies and it ceases to be what you love. So if you love a flower, let it be. Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Rajneesh Quotes , Love Quotes , Wise Quotes
  • Once one is caught up into the material world not one person in ten thousand finds the time to form literary taste, to examine the validity of philosophic concepts for himself, or to form what, for lack of a better phrase, I might call the wise and tragic sense of life.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Wise Quotes , World Quotes
  • Give a drink of water as alms to the birds which go forth at morning, and deem that they have a better right than men [to thy charity]. For their race brings not harm upon thee in any wise, when thou fearest it from thine own race.
    • 6 years ago



    Tags : Al-Maʿarri Quotes , Wise Quotes , Morning Quotes