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We believe it is bad or dangerous to be carried away by our emotions. We admire the person who is cool, who acts without feeling.


Alexander Lowen

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With loads of learned lumber in his head,
With his own ...
ALEXANDER POPE I find myself... hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which a...
ALEXANDER POPE They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
ALEXANDER POPE Know then thyself; presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
ALEXANDER POPE 'Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
ALEXANDER POPE Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.
ALEXANDER POPE We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philoso...
ALEXANDER POPE Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
ALEXANDER POPE Honor and shame from no condition rise; Act well your part, there all the honor lies.
ALEXANDER POPE The liturgy of the Eucharist is best understood as a journey or procession. It is the journey of the...
ALEXANDER SCHMEMANN Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
ALEXANDER POPE Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.
ALEXANDER POPE Our envy of others devours us most of all
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn't the will to do what is right
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your m...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhe...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN The Universe has as many different centers as there are living beings in it
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which ...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN I am of course confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer in all circumstances -- from my gr...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those ...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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