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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, it is ready to read more
When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, it is ready to climb.
Instinct is untaught ability.
Instinct is untaught ability.
A good man, through obscurest aspirations
Has still an instinct of the one true way.
[Ger., Ein read more
A good man, through obscurest aspirations
Has still an instinct of the one true way.
[Ger., Ein guter Mensch, in seinem dunkeln Drange,
Ist sich des rechten Weges sohl bewusst.]
My studies in Speculative philosophy, metaphysics, and science are all summed up in the image of a mouse called man read more
My studies in Speculative philosophy, metaphysics, and science are all summed up in the image of a mouse called man running in and out of every hole in the Cosmos hunting for the Absolute Cheese.
There is no instinct like that of the heart.
There is no instinct like that of the heart.
Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
'Tis thus we heed no instincts but our own,
Believe no evil, till the evil's done.
[Fr., read more
'Tis thus we heed no instincts but our own,
Believe no evil, till the evil's done.
[Fr., Nous n'ecoutons d'instincts que ceux qui sont les notres.
Et ne croyons le mal que quand il est venu.]
Can anyone picture God telling, taking, or enjoying a good joke? The idea is laughable. The Devil, on the other read more
Can anyone picture God telling, taking, or enjoying a good joke? The idea is laughable. The Devil, on the other hand, laughs with demonic mirth, is possessed of a sardonic wit, and his eyes hold a glint of wicked bemusement. The farthest God, in his popular image, ever strays from sobriety is a beneficent smile. Satan sniggers with fiendish scorn at God, who sits in his ivory tower emitting nary a chuckle.
You can take away a man's gods, but only to give himothers in return.
You can take away a man's gods, but only to give himothers in return.