When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
The more you know, the more you see
Human beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair chance, of making a reasonable choice in the light of available evidence. Democratic institutions can be made to work only if all concerned do their best to impart knowledge and to encourage rationality. But today, in the world's most powerful democracy, the politicians and the propagandists prefer to make nonsense of democratic procedures by appealing almost exclusively to the ignorance and irrationality of the electors.
Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.
which is better - to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
The spiritual journey does not consist of arriving at a new destination where a person gains what he did not have, or becomes what he is not. It consists in the dissipation of one's own ignorance concerning oneself and life, and the gradual growth of that understanding which begins the spiritual awakening. The finding of God is a coming to one?s self.
Liberties are not given, they are taken.
Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.
Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.
Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they're the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.
At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?
Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
No social stability without individual stability.
All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
It isn't a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.
Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
To be excited is still to be unsatisfied.
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