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chinese-philosopher eat fill human nature rest warm
Now it is human nature to want to eat to ones fill when hungry, to want to warm up when cold, to want to rest when tired. These all are a part of people's emotional nature. Xun Zi
chinese-philosopher fantastic human integral music required
Music is a fantastic peacekeeper of the world, it is integral to harmony, and it is a required fundamental of human emotion. Xun Zi
chinese-philosopher coming disgrace inner
The coming of honor or disgrace must be a reflection of one's inner power. Xun Zi
chinese-philosopher lack people ritual tendencies
When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled. Xun Zi
chinese-philosopher pliable rigid
The rigid cause themselves to be broken; the pliable cause themselves to be bound. Xun Zi
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A person is born with a liking for profit. Xun Zi
chinese-philosopher human nature
Mencius said that human nature is good. I disagree with that. Xun Zi
chinese-philosopher concerned sacrifices
Sacrifices are concerned with the feelings of devotion and longing. Xun Zi
chinese-philosopher involve later man sees sooner time
When a man sees something desirable, he must reflect on the fact that with time it could come to involve what is detestable. When he sees something that is beneficial, he should reflect that sooner or later it, too, could come to involve harm. Xun Zi
knowledge men order
Men are more readily contented with no intellectual light than with a little; and wherever they have been taught to acquire some knowledge in order to please others, they have most generally gone on to acquire more, to please themselves. Charles Caleb Colton
knowledge simplicity complicated
The further we advance in knowledge, the more simplicity shall we discover in those primary rules that regulate all the apparently endless, complicated, and multiform operations of the Godhead. Charles Caleb Colton
knowledge class ferns
In the pursuit of knowledge, follow it wherever it is to be found; like fern, it is the produce of all climates, and like coin, its circulation is not restricted to any particular class. Charles Caleb Colton
knowledge performances pretension
The highest knowledge can be nothing more than the shortest and clearest road to truth; all the rest is pretension, not performance, mere verbiage and grandiloquence, from which we can learn nothing. Charles Caleb Colton
knowledge discovery views
It has been observed that a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant will see farther than the giant himself; and the moderns, standing as they do on the vantage ground of former discoveries and uniting all the fruits of the experience of their forefathers, with their own actual observation, may be admitted to enjoy a more enlarged and comprehensive view of things than the ancients themselves. Charles Caleb Colton
knowledge pay despise
To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it. Charles Caleb Colton
knowledge perfect brain
The seat of perfect contentment is in the head; for every individual is thoroughly satisfied with his own proportion of brains. Charles Caleb Colton
knowledge science two
Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false. Charles Caleb Colton
knowledge world lifts
Let no knowledge satisfy but that which lifts above the world, which weans from the world, which makes the world a footstool. Charles Spurgeon
shut-up showers capacity
I still sing every day - in the shower or on the set all day. I'm sure everyone will tell you that I never shut up. But it's not in the capacity that I would like to. Aaron Tveit
shut stable
When the steed is stolen, you shut the stable door. Spanish Proverb
shut-up one-thing
There's only one thing to say to the censors: Shut up. Chris Crutcher
shut
Shut up. Goodbye. Get off the phone, man. Michael Irvin
shuttle space station stay time
When I did my spacewalks, it was during space station construction. So the shuttle was docked to the fledgling ISS at the time. So we would always stay tethered. Chris Hadfield
shut
My advice to all interviewers is: Shut up and listen. It's harder than it sounds. Errol Morris
shut won
We still could have shut them out and won by four. Marty Schottenheimer
shut true
You look out there, ... and there aren't too many true aces out there that are going to shut you down. Jason Marquis
shut-up
There isn't much I have to say, that I wouldn't rather just shut up and do. Ani Difranco