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Any man who retreats into a cave which has only one opening deserves to die.
To stand alone against all adversity is the most sacred moment of existence.
Confine yourself to observing and you always miss the point of your own life.
Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.
The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
She looked at patches of blackness. Black is a blind remembering, she thought.
The ferocity we show our foes must be tempered by the lesson we hope to teach.
Producing perfection from imperfection is, after all, the highest of art forms.
A leader, you see, is one of the things that distinguishes a mob from a people.
The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in.
When we try to conceal our innermost drives, the entire being screams betrayal.
The most important survival ability for any life form is the ability to change.
Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and has powers of reality.
Logic is good for playing chess but is often too slow for the needs of survival.
FEAR IS THE MIND-KILLER. FEAR IS THE LITTLE-DEATH THAT BRINGS TOTAL OBLITERATION.
The whole universe sat there, open to the man who could make the right decisions.
You should never be in the company of anyone with whom you would not want to die.
The best prophets lead you up to the curtain and let you peer through for yourself.
When you think you know something: that is a most perfect barrier against learning.
Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.
The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.
It must certainly be more dangerous to live in ignorance than to live with knowledge.
The joy of living, its beauty, is all bound up in the fact that life can surprise you.
The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door.
How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.
All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities.
A stone is heavy and the sand is weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.
The surest way to keep a secret is to make people believe they already know the answer.
To see eternity was to be exposed to eternity's whims, oppressed by endless dimensions.
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.
Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.
A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct.
There exists no separation between gods and men; one blends softly casual into the other.
To the soul's desires The body listens What the flesh requires Keeps the heart imprisoned
Answers are a perilous grip on the universe. They can appear sensible yet explain nothing.
There are limits to power, as those who put their hopes in a constitution always discover.
The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.
When strangers meet, great allowance should be made for differences of custom and training.
A man is a fool not to put everything he has, at any given moment, into what he is creating.
The greatest and most important problems of life cannot be solved. They can only be outgrown.
Once human beings realize something can be done, they're not satisfied until they've done it.
Religion, too, is a weapon. What manner of weapon is religion when it becomes the government?
I don't speak ... I operate a machine called language. It creaks and groans, but is mine own.
Try looking into that place where you dare not look! You'll find me there, staring out at you!
What is important for a leader is that which makes him a leader. It is the needs of his people.
Politics: the art of appearing candid and completely open while concealing as much as possible.
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
We never completely escape the teachers of our childhood nor any of the patterns that formed us.
A requirement of creativity is that it contributes to change. Creativity keeps the creator alive.
Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity.