"When you think you know something: that is a most perfect barrier against learning."
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"I don't speak ... I operate a machine called language. It creaks and groans, but is mine own."
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"Much that was called religion has carried an unconscious attitude of hostility toward life. True religion must teach that life is filled with joys pleasing to the eye of God, that knowledge without action is empty. All men must see that the teaching of religion by rules and rote is largely a hoax. The proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you’ve always known."
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"Love is not a mood, but a dynamic way of being."
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"Can you collect chaos? Not collecting, that is the ultimate gathering. What can you gather without gathering yourself."
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"There are problems in this universe for which there are no answers. Nothing. Nothing can be done."
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"Beaurocracy destroys initiative."
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"Control the coinage and the courts — let the rabble have the rest."
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"People don't vote. Instinct tells them it's useless."
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"Prophets have a way of dying by violence."
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"In politics, the tripod is he most unstable of all structures. It's be bad enough without the complication of a feudal trade culture which turns its back on most science."
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"Educational bureaucracies dull a child's questing sensitivity."
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"The whole universe sat there, open to the man who could make the right decisions."
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"What do such machines really do? They increase the number of things we can do without thinking. Things we do without thinking-there’s the real danger."
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"the sleeper must awaken."
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"The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door."
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"Sympathy for the enemy -- a weakness of police and armies alike. Most perilous are the unconscious sympathies directing you to preserve your enemy intact because the enemy is your justification for existence."
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"I am like a person whose hands were kept numb, without sensation from the first moment of awareness - until one day the ability to feel is forced into them. And I say "Look! I have no hands!" But the people all around me say: "What are hands?"
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"We’ve lost something vital, I tell you. When we lost it, we lost the ability to make good decisions. We fall upon decisions these days the way we fall upon an enemy—or wait and wait, which is a form of giving up, and we allow the decisions of others to move us. Have we forgotten that we were the ones who set this current flowing?"
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"Education is no substitute for intelligence. That elusive quality is defined only in part by puzzle-solving ability. It is in the creation of new puzzles reflecting what your senses report that you round out the definitions."
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