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Love, whether sexual, parental, or fraternal, is essentially sacrificial, and prompts a man to give his life for his friends.
A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud.
Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.
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With an artist no sane man quarrels, any more than with the colour of a child's eyes.
Sanity is madness put to good use.
Our occasional madness is less wonderful than our occasional sanity.
The works of nature first acquire a meaning in the commentaries they provoke.
The habit of looking for beauty in everything makes us notice the shortcomings of things, our sense, hungry for complete satisfaction, misses the perfection it demands.
A buoyant and full-blooded soul has quick senses and miscellaneous sympathies: it changes with the changing world; and when not too much starved or thwarted by circumstances, it finds all things vivid and comic. Life is free play fundamentally and would like to be free play altogether.
In a moving world readaptation is the price of longevity.
Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.
I love moving water, I love ships, I love the sharp definition, the concentrated humanity, the sublime solitude of life at sea. The dangers of it only make present to us the peril inherent in all existence, which the stupid, ignorant, un-travelled land-worm never discovers; and the art of it, so mathematical, so exact, so rewarding to intelligence, appeals to courage and clears the mind of superstition, while filling it with humility and true religion.
A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity.
The combative instinct is a savage prompting by which one man's good is found in another's evil.
The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.
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The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.
