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A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters.
It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.
This characteristic of Dasein's being this "that it is" is veiled in its "whence" and "whither.
There exists only the present instant ... There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now.
God is a fiction invented by people so they do not have to face the reality of their condition.
Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself.
Freedom is the power to create out of nothing, the power of the spirit to create out of itself.
There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world.
Drink! for you know not whence you came nor why: drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.
Love - Truth-seeking The strength of Truth lies in Love and the strength of Love lies in Truth.
Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom.
I find it extraordinary that anyone would have an intellectual conversion to Roman Catholicism.
And this is the best success I can dream for my life: to have spread a new vision of the world.
If we are to have any hope for the future, those who have lanterns must pass them on to others.
And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.
Those who reproach injustice do so because they are afraid not of doing it but of suffering it.
Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.
Art is community's medicine for that worst disease of the mind, the corruption of consciousness
Being unpopular is never easy; but being unpopular in a good cause is a shield against despair.
Wisdom teaches us to do, as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a colour.
When thou hast profited so much that thou respectest even thyself, thou mayst let go thy tutor.
It's the great soul that surrenders itself to fate, but a puny degenerate thing that struggles.
You find in some a sort of graceless modesty, that makes them ashamed to requite an obligation.
Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.
Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.
Uprooting is by far the most dangerous of the ills of human society, for it perpetuates itself.
Contradiction itself, far from always being a criterion of error, is sometimes a sign of truth.
When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.
Had I to carve an inscription on my tombstone I would ask for none other than "The Individual."
The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being.
What is beautiful? Whatever is perceived joyfully is beautiful. Bliss is the essence of beauty.
We are led by the least among us - the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary.
This is the nature of going forward into being: A series of self-transforming ascents of level.
Because this is the world that science built, with the henchmen of capitalism and Christianity.
There is no mundane dimension really, if you have the eyes to see it, it is all transcendental.
Nature is the time-vesture of God that reveals Him to the wise, and hides him from the foolish.
People who believe themselves to be the incarnation of good have a distorted view of the world.
Reason may not always tell us what to believe, but it can help us on what we shouldn't believe.
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
Happiness is the possession of the excellence proper to us, and of the power subservient to it.
I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.
Cherish that which is in you and shut out that which is without, for much knowledge is a curse.
I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.
...people of old deemed freedom from greed precious, and this is how they got beyond the world.
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence.
Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.