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„Philosophy accepts the hard and hazardous task of dealing with problems not yet open to the methods of science – problems like good and evil, beauty and ugliness, order and freedom, life and death; so soon as a field of inquiry yields knowledge susceptible of exact formulation it is called science.“
„Excellence is an art won by training and habituation: we do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have these because we have acted rightly; ‘these virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions’; we are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit: ‘the good of man is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life… for as it is not one swallow or one fine day that makes a spring, so it is not one day or a short time that makes a man blessed and happy.’“
„India will teach us the tolerance and gentleness of mature mind, understanding spirit and a unifying, pacifying love for all human beings.“
„India was the motherland of our race, and Sanskrit the mother of Europe’s languages: she was the mother of our philosophy; mother, through the Arabs, of much of our mathematics; mother, through the Buddha, of the ideals embodied in Christianity; mother, through the village community, of self-government and democracy. Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all.“
„Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.“
„No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.“
„Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action.“
„When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.“
„A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself within.“
„Nothing should more deeply shame the modern student than the recency and inadequacy of his acquaintance with India.“
„Philosophy is a hypothetical interpretation of the unknown (as in metaphysics), or of the inexactly known (as in ethics or political philosophy); it is the front trench in the siege of truth.“
„Love one another. My final lesson of history is the same as that of Jesus.You may think that’s a lot of lollipop but just try it. Love is the most practical thing in the world. If you take an attitude of love toward everybody you meet, you’ll eventually get along.“
„On the maturation of a woman* “She is a woman now, and not an idle girl, not a domestic ornament or a sexual convenience anymore.”“
„I have tried to be impartial, though I know that a man’s past always colors his views, and that nothing else is so irritating as impartiality.“
„To all Christian governments Christianity was not a rule of means but a means of rule; Christ was for the people, Machiavelli was preferred by the kings. The state in some measure had civilized man, but who would civilize the state?“
„A sensation is the feeling of an external stimulus or an internal condition.“
„Man is as young as the risks he takes.“
„See him, the newborn, dirty but marvelous, ridiculous in actuality, infinite in possibility, capable of that ultimate miracle, growth.“
„Children and fools speak the truth; and somehow they find happiness in their sincerity.“
„Life is that which can hold a purpose for three thousand years and never yield. The individual fails, but life succeeds. The individual is foolish, but life holds in its blood and seed the wisdom of generations. The individual dies, but life, tireless and undiscourageble, goes on, wondering, longing, planning, trying, mounting, longing.“
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