Over time I learned that there were a lot of people who would judge you, blame you, and try to make you feel lesser, no matter what you did; that a degree, a good suit, and a career wouldn't always insulate you from scorn.
The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
You have to build systems to protect against your lesser self.
I don't see much use in general slogans. Sometimes it is worth resisting evil with lesser evil, very commonly in fact.
It is a wonderful thing to see a first-rate philosopher at prayer. Tough-minded thinking and tenderhearted reverence are friends, not enemies. We have for too long separated the head from the heart, and we are the lesser for it. We love God with the mind and we love God with the heart. In reality, we are descending with the mind into the heart and there standing before God in ceaseless wonder and endless praise. As the mind and the heart work in concert, a kind of loving rationality pervades all we say and do. This brings unity to us and glory to God.
Great minds are always feared by lesser minds.
When superior people hear of the Way, they carry it out with diligence. When middling people hear of the Way, it sometimes seems to be there, sometimes not. When lesser people hear of the Way, they ridicule it greatly. If they didn't laugh at it, it wouldn't be the Way.
Everyone is entitled to commit murder in the imagination once in a while, not to mention lesser infractions.
We have all lost touch with life, we all limp, each to a greater or lesser degree.
There are thousands of lesser chakras. Chakras are doorways to other worlds. When you focus on them, you step into something else.
Some rule out of a lust for ruling; others, so as not to be ruled:Mto these it is merely the lesser of two evils.
Woman is the lesser man.
A low view of God is the cause of a hundred lesser evils. A high view of God is the solution to ten thousand temporal problems.
Corporations are may lesser commonwealths in the bowels of a greater, like worms in the entrails of a natural man.
There's not a sense that the person who is waiting on the table is somehow a lesser person that the person who is eating in the restaurant.