“Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room; nor know how to conduct myself in any circumstances, nor what to feel in any relation of life.”
"On Prejudice"
Men and Manners: Sketches and Essays (1852)
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“Neither in the arts, nor in logic, nor in life should an idea by in any way treated as a thing.”

Source: Space and I, Chiaki Mukai http://www.globaleducationmagazine.com/space-and-i/

Breaking the Cycle (2003)
Context: Unilateral preemption should not in any way be the model for how we conduct international relations... [It] brings us into very dangerous territory and it could be used and abused by any other country. We need to continue to base our security on multilateralism, and on the Security Council.

DB inscription http://www.avesta.org/op/op.htm#db1, COLUMN 4, 63. (4.61-7.)

Everything is mine, for all that is God’s seem to be wholly mine. I am mute and lost in God...God so transforms the soul in Him that it knows nothing other than God, and He continues to draw it up into His fiery love until He restores it to that pure state from which it first issued
Source: Life and Doctrine, p. 50

Dragons
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part X - The Position of a HomoUnius Libri