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267 Reformer Quotes

It is possibly not very helpful to our inner life to ponder a great deal on how the external world is reflected in our soul. By doing so, we do not get beyond a shadowy picture of the world of mental images in ourselves.

Beyond Deal Doing External
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A philosophy of freedom must set out from the experience of thinking, for it is through this experience of thinking that a human being discovers his own self, finds his bearings as an independent personality.

Bearing Being Discovers Experience
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You can certainly get an idea of the value of memory if your memories can carry you out into the world no matter how utterly dissatisfied you may be with the present and wish you could get away from it.

Away Carry Certainly Could
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In the very traits of his temperament, which have a considerable effect on his life of soul, a person bears within him qualities and impulses that have an obvious connection with those of his physical ancestors.

Ancestors Bears Connection Considerable
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In earthly life, a person can conceal whether evil or good is active in his soul. After death, this is no longer possible. The spirit form presents after death the physiognomical expression of what the person was on earth.

Active After Conceal Death
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We must carry out exercises in thought and exercises in will if the portals of the supersensible world are to open for us. It is this world that we must enter if we want to know the eternal aspect of ourselves and of the universe.

Aspect Carry Enter Eternal
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We have to push aside what generally concerns us most in our thought life, namely, the content of our thoughts, and learn instead to make conscious use of the element of will in our thinking.

Aside Concerns Conscious Content
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When we have learnt through a period of finely honed training to live in Imaginative Thinking, when we can engage the whole of our being in this Imaginative Thinking, we find that it immerses us in a reality hitherto unknown to us.

Being Engage Find Hitherto
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We must assimilate the thought that life between death and a new birth is so constituted that everything we do awakens an echo in the environment.
Assimilate Awakens Between Birth
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Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.

Debate Masculine Conversion Feminine
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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Success Sweet Long Struggles
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First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.

First Man Yourself Inspire
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We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

We Heaven Ruins Failures
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Success is sweet: the sweeter if long delayed and attained through manifold struggles and defeats.
Success Sweet Long Delayed
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Love is the key to felicity, nor is there a heaven to any who love not. We enter Paradise through its gates only.

Love Key Heaven Enter
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Time is the best critic.

Time Best Critic
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To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
Ignorant One Malady
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Who knows the mind has the key to all things else.

Who Knows Mind Key
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Every dogma embodies some shade of truth to give it seeming currency.

Dogma Embodies Shade Truth
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None can teach admirably if not loving his task.

None Teach Admirably Loving
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Every noble life becomes a revelation of the spirit which the love and joy of mankind cannot let perish from remembrance.

Noble Life Revelation Spirit
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"Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Stay Charming Word Friend
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That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.

Good Book Opened Expectation
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One's life should be sufficiently interesting to furnish entertainment in the record.

One's Life Intresting Entertainment
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Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds.

Manners Mantle Minds
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Time ripens the substance of a life as the seasons mellow and perfect its fruits. The best apples fall latest and keep longest.

Time Life Seasons Perfect
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The passions refuse to be organized on a basis of their own; hostile to personal freedom and one another, they rush precipitately into anarchy and mob rule.

Passions Organized Hostile Freedom
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As education becomes inclusive, introspective, cosmic, promoting whole populations to power and privilege, it enthrones a vast, invisible, personal rule over the common mind.

Education Inclusive Introspective Populations
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Cities with all their advantages have something hostile to liberal learning, the seductions are so subtle and accost the senses so openly on all sides.

Cities Advantages Hostile Liberal
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Man must have some recognized stake in society and affairs to knit him lovingly to his kind, or he is wont to revenge himself for wrongs real or imagined.

Man Society Lovingly Revenge
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A happy childhood is the pledge of a ripe manhood.

Happy Childhood Pledge Ripe
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Truth is inclusive of all the virtues, is older than sects and schools, and, like charity, more ancient than mankind.

Truth Virtues Older Schools
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Anger is the resentment of the animal, and gentle blood alone makes the gentleman.

Anger Resentment Animal Blood
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Whatsoever stirs the stagnant currents, setting these flowing in wholesome directions, promotes brisk spirits and productive thinking. The less of routine, the more of life.

Whatsoever Currents Flowing Directions
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I find my past in my present, and from these forecast my future.

Find Past Present Forecast
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Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in man, and finds the readiest response.

Who Speaks Instincts Man
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Despair snuffs the sun from the firmament.

Despair Sun Firmament
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An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best.

Author Reader Depths Thoughts
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Pity the mother who assumes the name without being all this implies!

Pity Mother Name Implies
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What I want is, not to possess religion, but to have a religion that shall possess me.

Want Possess Religion Me
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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Act Comfort Luxury Life
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Feelings are like chemicals; the more you analyze them the worse they smell.

Feelings Analyze Worse Smell
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There are two freedoms—the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Freedoms False Man Free
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Do noble things, do not dream them all day long.
Do Noble things Dream Day
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What’s the use of doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

Use Doing Kindness Day
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Do today’s duty, fight today’s temptation; do not weaken and distract yourself by looking forward to things you cannot see, and could not understand if you saw them.

Do Today Duty Temptation
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Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do which must be done, whether you like it or not.

Thank God Something Do
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The men whom I have seen succeed best in life always have been cheerful and hopeful men; who went about their business with a smile on their faces; and took the changes and chances of this mortal life like men; facing rough and smooth alike as it came.

Men Succeed Life Cheerful
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It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.
Great True Friends Mean
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Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.

Except Living man Wonderful Book
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