It often occurs that pride and selfishness are muddled with strength and independence. They are neither equal nor similar; in fact, they are polar opposites. A coward may be so cowardly that he masks his weakness with some false personification of power. He is afraid...
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Criss Jami
It is often argued that religion is valuable because it makes men good, but even if this were true it would not be a proof that religion is true. That would be an extension of pragmatism beyond endurance. Santa Claus makes children good in precisely...
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H.l. Mencken
It is the natural tendency of the ignorant to believe what is not true. In order to overcome that tendency it is not sufficient to exhibit the true; it is also necessary to expose and denounce the false. To admit that the false has any...
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H.l. Mencken
Who says that fictions only and false hair Become a verse? Is there in truth no beauty? Is all good structure in a winding stair?
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George Herbert
More Quotes By Khalil Gibran
The Teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.
If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.
Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.
