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If we seek the Buddha outside the mind, the Buddha changes into a devil.
Terminological infelicities have a way of breeding conceptual confusion.
What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name - and moving on.
I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome.
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.
Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners.
The ignorance of French society gives one a rough sense of the infinite.
Descartes's epistemology is a special case of Aristotle's virtue ethics.
It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
No man was ever eloquent by trying to be eloquent, but only by being so.
Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.
Better not be a hero than work oneself up into heroism by shouting lies.
A way foolishness has of revenging itself is to excommunicate the world.
Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history.
All cities we have visited are precincts in this metropolis of the mind.
Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
If you should escape the censure of others, hope not to escape your own.
Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
The greatest of all infidelities is the fear that the truth will be bad.
God, freedom, and immortality are untenable in the light of pure reason.
All central beliefs on human matters spring from a personal predicament.
Why should it not be the whole function of a word to denote many things?
I do everything I think possible or acceptable to escape from this trap.
Nothing is more vain than to seek to unite men by a philosophic minimum.
The ruling class is and will continue to be the class of decision makers
The money you have gives you freedom; the money you pursue enslaves you.
It is hard to prevent oneself from believing what one so keenly desires.
Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.
Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.
Love, known to the person by whom it is inspired, becomes more bearable.
the worst part about being lied to is knowing you werent worth the truth
The consciousness that says 'I am' is not the consciousness that thinks.
There it is: I am gently slipping into the water's depths, towards fear.
Man is always a wizard to man, and the social world is at first magical.
Knowledge falters when imagination clips its wings or fears to use them.
It requires troublesome work to undertake the alteration of old beliefs.
An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.
The person portrayed and the portrait are two entirely different things.
Liberalism... is the noblest cry that has ever resounded in this planet.
I think it's important to live with a certain danger and a certain risk.
The existence of the state is inseparable from the existence of slavery.
For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.
Price, taken by itself, is nothing but the monetary expression of value.
It must be possible for an empirical system to be refuted by experience.
Sometimes gain comes from losing, and sometimes loss comes from gaining.
The wise trusts not only to his physical eyes - thus he can see clearly.
The more clever and cunning people are, the stranger the events will be.
Who has excess and supplies the world? Only the one who follows the Way.
All things in the world come from being. And being comes from non-being.