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Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it.

Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

When men make gods, there is no God!

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.

The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.