"Every ceiling reached becomes a floor."
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""Our kingdom go" is the necessary and unavoidable corollary of 'Thy kingdom come.' For the more there is self, the less there is of God. The divine eternal fulness of life can be gained only by those who have deliberately lost the partial, separative life of craving and self-interest, of egocentric thinking, feeling, wishing, and acting."
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"Universal education has created an immense class of what I may call the New Stupid, hungering for certainty yet unable to find it in the traditional myths and their rationalizations."
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"If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time."
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"The vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches."
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"Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation."
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"To be shaken out of the ruts of ordinary perception, to be shown for a few timeless hours the outer and the inner world, not as they appear to an animal obsessed with words and notions, but as they are apprehended, directly and unconditionally, by Mind at Large-This is the experience of inestimable value to everyone."
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"An irrelevance, and your life's altered."
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"Civilization is sterilization."
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"A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it."
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"In the contexts of religion and politics, words are not regarded as standing, rather inadequately, for things and events; on the contrary things and events are regarded as particular illustrations of words."
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"Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice."
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"Children are nowhere taught, in any systematic way, to distinguish true from false, or meaningful from meaningless, statements. Why is this so? Because their elders, even in the democratic countries, do not want them to be given this kind of education."
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"Our business is to wake up. We have to find ways in which to detect the whole of reality in the one illusory part which our self-centered consciousness permits us to see. We must not live thoughtlessly, taking our illusion for the complete reality, but at the same time we must not live too thoughtfully in the sense of trying to escape from the dream state. We must be continuously on watch for ways in which we may enlarge our consciousness."
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"Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too."
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"The present moment is the only aperture through which the soul can pass out of time into eternity, through which grace can pass out of eternity into the soul, and through which love can pass from one soul in time to another soul in time."
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"To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves."
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"A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy."
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"Several excuses are always less convincing than one."
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"Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. It is a gift for dealing with the accidents of existence, not the accidents themselves."
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