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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.
 
Il miglior combattente non è mai arrabbiato.
 
Evolutionary psychologists seem to want to unmask our noblest motives as ultimately self-interested - to show that our love for children, compassion for the unfortunate and sense of justice are just tactics in a Darwinian struggle to perpetuate our genes.
 
Mentality on our approach simply comes in when the organism is able to point out meanings to others and to himself. This is the point at which mind appears, or if you like, emerges…. It is absurd to look at the mind simply from the standpoint of the individual human organism; for, although it has its focus there, it is essentially a social phenomenon; even its biological functions are primarily social.
 
Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability, it is essential for human survival.
 
A dialogue is very important. It is a form of communication in which question and answer continue till a question is left without an answer. Thus the question is suspended between the two persons involved in this answer and question. It is like a bud with untouched blossoms . . . If the question is left totally untouched by thought, it then has its own answer because the questioner and answerer, as persons, have disappeared. This is a form of dialogue in which investigation reaches a certain point of intensity and depth, which then has a quality that thought can never reach.
 
Doubt grows with knowledge.
 
More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other's well-being, is source of happiness.
 
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
 
The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
 
Script analysis is then the answer to the problem of human destiny, and tells us (alas!) that our fates are predetermined for the most part, and that free will in this respect is for most people an illusion.
 
Whenever you can, count.
 
It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens.
 
Humans can be literally poisoned by false ideas and false teachings. Many people have a just horror at the thought of putting poison into tea or coffee, but seem unable to realize that, when they teach false ideas and false doctrines, they are poisoning the time-binding capacity of their fellow men and women. One has to stop and think! There is nothing mystical about the fact that ideas and words are energies which powerfully affect the physico-chemical base of our time-binding activities. Humans are thus made untrue to "human nature." … The conception of man as a mixture of animal and supernatural has for ages kept human beings under the deadly spell of the suggestion that, animal selfishness and animal greediness are their essential character, and the spell has operated to suppress their REAL HUMAN NATURE and to prevent it from expressing itself naturally and freely.
 
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
 
Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
 
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
 
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
 
As you breathe in, cherish yourself. As you breathe out, cherish all Beings.
 
Money does not bring happiness, it buys it.
 
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