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All real difficulty stems from no responsibility. Full responsibility is not fault; it is recognition of being cause.
And what do you think will happen to you when you find life is just too good to be left alone? You'll start living it.
All men shall be my slaves! All women shall succumb to my charms! All mankind shall grovel at my feet and not know why!
Well, I don't know that I'm OK any more than anybody else is OK but I've led at least a happy life and a very full one.
When this government [Chiang Kaishek's] finally fell there was no one ready to teach the Chinese the human way of life.
The differences between a competent person and an incompetent person are demonstrated in his environment (surroundings).
The most valuable asset we have, actually, is our ability to understand, to do the right thing, to be kind, to be decent.
All we know of science or of religion comes from philosophy. It lies behind and above all other knowledge we have or use.
Morale is boosted to high highs by accomplishment. In fact, it can be demonstrated that production is the basis of morale.
People who tell you that control is bad are trying to tell you that automobile accidents and industrial accidents are good.
Y'know, we're all wasting our time writing this hack science fiction! You wanta make real money, you gotta start a religion!
There is nothing wrong with being the most important person under the sun if everybody else is just as important as you are.
It is not possible to 'spoil' a child with love and affection...a child needs all the love and affection it can possibly get.
Dianetics is a milestone for man comparable to his discovery of fire and superior to his invention of the wheel and the arch.
I have all the world around me. My walls are 180 East Longitude and 90 North and 90 South Latitude.... Adventure is my guidon.
The mind when it has an old experience will add that data into its current experience, and it keeps coming up with wrong answers.
I am studying ancient civilizations, trying to find what happened to them, finding out why they went into a decline, why they died.
If a man can dream, if a man can have goals, he can be happy and he can be alive. If he has no goals he doesn't even have a future.
I have high hopes of smashing my name into history so violently that it will take a legendary form even if all books are destroyed.
What is important is how much service you can give the world and how much you can get done and how much better you can make things.
I like to help others and count it as my greatest pleasure in life to see a person free himself of the shadows which darken his days.
All great cathedrals began their building by the placement of a single stone. The building unit of a great society is the individual.
Let the child see Mama and Daddy both at least once a day. Never quarrel or argue in front of a baby or a child-it destroys security.
Two Rules for Happy Living: 1. Be able to experience anything. 2. Cause only those things which others are able to experience easily.
I know no man who has any monopoly upon the wisdom of this universe. It belongs to those who can use it to help themselves and others.
I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up. I know how it looks both ways. And I know there is wisdom and that there is hope.
A human being feels able and competent only so long as he is permitted to contribute as much as or more than he has contributed to him.
The very nature of the Chinaman holds him back. If his fellow should fall, John thinks it quite proper that he stamp on the underdogs face.
Maintain silence in the presence of birth to save both the sanity of the mother and the child and safeguard the home to which they will go.
It takes truth to live with a swiftly changing world. Nothing less than truth can survive. You cannot survive with anything less than truth.
The South African native is probably the one impossible person to train in the entire world; he is probably impossible by any human standard.
Security is not a static thing. Security would only lie in a man's confidence in reaching his goals and, indeed, in his having goals to reach.
Who said the road doesn’t have bumps? It can still be traveled. So people can fall down: it doesn’t mean they can’t get up again and keep going.
The man who has his ideals, no matter how thoroughly he may be persuaded to desert them, survives well only so long as he is true to those ideals.
China, slavishly dedicated to ancient scholars, incapable of generating within herself sufficient rulers to continue, without bloodshed, a nation.
All disturbance and chaos folds up in the teeth of truth. Dont ever try to stop truth. Its the only thing that can go through 16-inch armor plate.
It requires real strength to love Man. And to love him despite all invitations to do otherwise, all provocations and all reasons why one should not.
You don't have a soul; you are your own soul. In other words, you are not this book, your social security card, your body, or your mind. You are you.
True greatness merely refuses to change in the face of bad actions against one—and a truly great person loves his fellows because he understands them.
Stress the right of the individual to select only what he desires to know, to use any knowledge as he wishes, that he himself owns what he has learned.
Getting married is an adventure. Because when you're getting married, you're doing something you don't know anything about. Did you ever think of that?
As long as children and young men and women find pleasure in study, they will continue studying throughout life - and upon that depends their happiness.
Blaming something else makes that something else cause; and as that cause takes on power, the individual in the same act loses control and becomes effect.
Probably the most neglected friend you have is you. And yet every man, before he can be a true friend to the world, must first become a friend to himself.
Furthermore, [Sigmund Freud] had a racial fixation on sex, a fixation sufficiently pronounced to cause it to infect contagiously all modern European stock.
That which a person works hardest on, he winds up having. That's one of the fundamentals of this universe. That to which he devotes energy, he finally has.
You're here so you're a Scientologist. Now we're going to make you into an expert auditor no matter what happens. We'd rather have you dead than incapable.
Communication is the root of marital success from which a strong union can grow, and noncommunicatio n is the rock on which the ship will bash out her keel.
The African tribesman, with his complete contempt for truth and his emphasis on brutality and savagery for others but not for himself, is a no-civilization.
You are treating yourself in present time much as you were treated by others in the past. And you punish yourself far more than anyone would ever punish you.