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"The self-righteousness and other ego-puffery that makes missionaries and evangelists out of Christians is in truth a measure of how far they are from even the one thing they think is most certainly true, i.e. the confidence that they are truly Christians."
"To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in."
"Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery."
"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding... And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy"
"Philosophy's work is finding the shortest path between two points."
"India was China's teacher in religion and imaginative literature, and the world's teacher in trignometry, quandratic equations, grammar, phonetics, Arabian Nights, animal fables, chess, as well as in philosophy, and that she inspired Boccaccio, Goethe, Herder, Schopenhauer, Emerson, and probably also old Aesop."
"Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil."
"Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome."
"I really believe in the philosophy that you create your own universe. I'm just trying to create a good one for myself."
"Laws provide, as much as ispossible that the goods and health of subjects be not injured by the fraud and violence of others. They do not guard them from thenegligence or ill-husbandry of the possessors themselves."
"Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features"
"Your income is directly related to your philosophy, NOT the economy."
"Living safe behind a wall, never tasting life at all."
"Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates - but pages might be filled up, as vainly as before, with the sad usage of all sorts of sages, who in his life-time, each was deemed a bore! The loftiest minds outrun their tardy ages."
"Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber."
"I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more."
"A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it."
"What we learn from experience depends on the kind of philosophy we bring to experience."
"The value given to the testimony of any feeling must depend on our whole philosophy, not our whole philosophy on a feeling."
"Character and intelligence are the poles you talent spins on, displaying your gifts."
