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If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being - like a worm.
The plight of modern man is that he is condemmed to be free.
It is better; heavier, crueler. The mouth you wear for hell.
The spirit of dogmatic theology poisons anything it touches.
Science is a systematic means of gaining reliable knowledge.
Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.
The sense of justice is continuous with the love of mankind.
Mechanizing man's work had changed but not lighted his toil.
Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values.
Man adapts himself to everything, to the best and the worst.
My object in life is to dethrone God and destroy capitalism.
History repeats itself, the first as tragedy, then as farce.
Philosophy studies the world, but the point is to change it.
Under the ideal measure of values there lurks the hard cash.
Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment.
Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.
A multitude of words is tiresome, unlike remaining centered.
Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
Give evil nothing to oppose and it will disappear by itself.
Throw away profit and greed, and there won't be any thieves.
If you wish to be out front, then act as if you were behind.
He who accounts all things easy will have many difficulties.
The scholar gains every day; the man of Tao loses every day.
Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner.
Wise travelers always stop short before they come to danger.
Do not strive for the shine of jade, but clatter like stone.
Other people have more than they need, I alone seem wanting.
The softest in the world surpasses the hardest in the world.
The importance of music extends well beyond its performance.
God is a fixed paradise; man should be a paradise in motion.
The difficulty in philosophy is to say no more than we know.
One can mistrust one's own senses, but not one's own belief.
How hard I find it to see what is right in front of my eyes!
I act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own.
One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.
When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.
Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity.
The office of liberality consisteth in giving with judgment.
Politeness and an affable address are our best introduction.
A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.
The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body.
The hope of impunity is the greatest inducement to do wrong.
It is difficult to remember all, and ungracious to omit any.
Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.
Man is not the lord of beings. Man is the shepherd of Being.
I'm a complete deviant. All creative work breaks new ground.