The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.
The judgment may be compared to a clock or watch, where the most ordinary machine is sufficient to tell the hours; but the most elaborate alone can point out the minutes and seconds, and distinguish the smallest differences of time.
The fact that we are human beings is infinitely more important than all the peculiarities that distinguish human beings from one another.
By what criterion. . . can we distinguish among the numberless effects, that are also causes, and among the causes that may, for aught we can know, be also effects, - how can we distinguish which are the means and which are the ends?
I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime; I can so sincerely forgive the first while I abhor the last.
How wonderful it would be, I thought, if only we could practice the teachings of the Buddha as he really taught them from his own experience - free from the clouds of religiosity that often surround them Yet it's difficult to distinguish the tools themselves from their cultural packaging.
The best physician is he who can distinguish the possible from the impossible.
May we not then sometimes define insanity as an inability to distinguish which is the waking and which the sleeping life? We often dream without the least suspicion of unreality: 'Sleep hath its own world', and it is often as lifelike as the other.
The concept of time, as it’s commonly understood by normal people with normal jobs and normal goddamn lives, doesn’t exist on the road. The nights spread out like the dark, godforsaken highways that distinguish them, and the days run together like Thanksgiving dinner smothered in gravy. You never really know where you are or what time it is, and the outside world starts to fade away. It’s cool.
The movies had a slogan at the time, to distinguish themselves from TV, that said 'movies are better than ever. '
It is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine.
I simply do not distinguish between work and play.
By the time I was six or seven-years-old, I had learned several techniques of how to use my voice and was able to choose the sound I wanted to distinguish myself, so I started writing songs on the piano.
When I am writing, I do not distinguish between the natural and supernatural. Everything seems real. That is my world, you could say.
Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism.
We have within us, from the start, that which will distinguish us from the vulgar herd.
The true liberty of the press is amply secured by permitting every man to publish his opinion; but it is due to the peace and dignity of society, to inquire into the motives of such publications, and to distinguish between those which are meant for use and reformation, and with an eye solely to the public good, and those which are intended merely to delude and defame. To the latter description, it is impossible that any good government should afford protection and impunity.
In the perception of a tree we can distinguish the act of experiencing, or perceiving, from the thing experienced, or perceived.
I learned to distinguish between the two kinds of people in the world: those who have known inescapable sorrow and those who have not.