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Philosophers should consider the fact that the greatest happiness principle can easily be made an excuse for a benevolent dictatorship. We should replace it by a more modest and more realistic principle — the principle that the fight against avoidable misery should be a recognized aim of public policy, while the increase of happiness should be left, in the main, to private initiative.
 
A true spiritual practitioner is someone who has discovered that it is possible to be at ease in the world for no reason, if only for a few moments at a time, and that such ease is synonymous with transcending the apparent boundaries of the self.
 
To be great is to be misunderstood.
 
There is no God, but don’t tell that to my servant, lest he murder me at night.
 
CONFERENCE: A gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
 
Happy is the man who is nothing.
 
Whenever you fall, pick something up.
 
You don't get to advertise all the good that your religion does without first scrupulously subtracting all the harm it does and considering seriously the question of whether some other religion, or no religion at all, does better.
 
Since we can never know anything for sure, it is simply not worth searching for certainty; but it is well worth searching for truth; and we do this chiefly by searching for mistakes, so that we have to correct them.
 
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.
 
If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.
 
Alas, I am dying beyond my means.
 
Biological communities are systems of interacting components and thus display characteristic properties of systems, such as mutual interdependence, self-regulation, adaptation to disturbances, approach to states of equilibrium, etc.
 
Do illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup?
 
The law an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
 
To regard human beings as tools — as instruments — for the use of other human beings is not only unscientific but it is repugnant, stupid and short sighted. Tools are made by man but have not the autonomy of their maker — they have not man's time-binding capacity for initiation, for self-direction, and self-improvement.
 
FAIRY TALE: a horror story to prepare children for the newspapers.
 
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
 
It is one of the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all there is to perceive. 
 
Because we all share this planet earth, we have to learn to live in harmony and peace with each other and with nature. This is not just a dream, but a necessity.
 
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