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How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization!
The desire to belong is partly a desire to lose oneself.
To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
We see through others only when we see through ourselves.
All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question.
There is no alienation that a little power will not cure.
Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
Quite often the social doctors become part of the disease.
To dispose a soul to action we must upset its equilibrium.
All prayers and hopes are a reaching-out for coincidences.
A man's worth is what he is divided by what he thinks he is.
Ideas have significance for him only as a prelude to action.
A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
A good sentence is a key . It unlocks the mind of the reader.
Sometimes we feel the loss of a prejudice as a loss of vigor.
We can never have enough of that which we really do not want.
There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.
A heresy can spring only from a system that is in full vigor.
Passionate intensity may serve as a substitute for confidence.
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding.
You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.
The world leans on us. When we sag, the whole world seems to droop.
Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
Craving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of oneself.
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about.
We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.
Lack of sensitivity is perhaps basically an unawareness of ourselves.
Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership.
We are unified both by hating in common and by being hated in common.
Somewhere between the Angels and the French lies the rest of humanity.
It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.
Many of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a sinner.
In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future.
Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled.
Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners.
The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.
The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.
A war is not won if the defeated enemy has not been turned into a friend.
What are we when we are alone? Some, when they are alone, cease to exist.
Every intense desire is perhaps a desire to be different from what we are.
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything.