Peace is not absence of conflict it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
There are those who wrap themselves in flags and blow the tinny trumpet of patriotism as a means of fooling the people.
The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.
Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
Patience means restraining one's inclinations.
Give your dog or cat respect patience understanding and love. And if you just change to one vegetarian day a week that's a wonderful step that will save animal lives. It means you have chosen something kind instead of something cruel.
For me Twitter works best as a way of taking pictures of being stuck in traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge. If people really want to read really funny quips about life parenting and pop culture then by all means read Michael Ian Black's tweets.
Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.
To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature which isn't apparent because it's shrouded by sensation and delusion.
Our observation of nature must be diligent our reflection profound and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined and for this reason creative geniuses are not common.
Nature never makes any blunders when she makes a fool she means it.
The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion which agitates her at all times but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes she conserves it by means of crimes only.
There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over the wound is closed and healed done with.
As a means of contrast with the sublime the grotesque is in our view the richest source that nature can offer.
Rest is not idleness and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day listening to the murmur of the water or watching the clouds float across the sky is by no means a waste of time.
Color is a plastic means of creating intervals... color harmonics produced by special relationships or tensions. We differentiate now between formal tensions and color tensions just as we differentiate in music between counterpoint and harmony.