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"Alice came to a fork in the road. 'Which road do I take?' she asked. 'Where do you want to go?' responded the Cheshire Cat. 'I don't know,' Alice answered. 'Then,' said the Cat, 'it doesn't matter."
"Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance."
"Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious."
"If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it."
"Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form."
"'Thou shalt not kill' does not apply to murder of one's own kind only, but to all living beings and this commandment was inscribed in the human breast long before it was proclaimed from Sinai."
"How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?"
"Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?"
"Many people dedicate their lives to actualizing a concept of what they should be like, rather than actualizing themselves. This difference between self-actualization and self-image actualization is very important. Most people live only for their image"
"Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude."
"The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him."
"The animals you eat are not those who devour others; you do not eat the carnivorous beasts, you take them as your pattern. You only hunger for the sweet and gentle creatures which harm no one, which follow you, serve you, and are devoured by you as the reward of their service."
"It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth."
"God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things."
"Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd."
"There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide."
"Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?"
"Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire."
"An unexamined life is a life of no account."
"One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived."
