Posted by: Maria Schillaci
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
The greatest sanctuary is knowing oneself.
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The greatest sanctuary is knowing oneself.
In the moments when we have to make a very important decision, it's best to confide in impulse, in passion, because reason generally tries to farther us from dreams, producing the justification that it's not yet time.
Reason has fear of defeat.
But intuition loves life and the challeges of life.
The earth has enough resourses for everyone's needs, not for everyone's greeds.
Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer.
The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.
It's not what you did in your past life that influences your present, but it's what you do in your present life that remedies the past and will logically change the future.
Reasonable beings are called people because their nature indicates them as an end in themselves, meaning like someting that cannot be used simply as a means.
It doesn't matter how you feel today, get up, get dressed and show yourself.
The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter—'tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.
If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.