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Man, when he realizes that he is an object of comedy, does not laugh.
 
If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.
 
Those who have little interest in spirituality shouldn’t think that human inner values don’t apply to you. The inner peace of an alert and calm mind are the source of real happiness and good health. Our human intelligence tells us which of our emotions are positive and helpful and which are damaging and to be restrained or avoided.
 
Consciousness surely does not depend on language. Babies, many animals, and patients robbed of speech by brain damage are not insensate robots; they have reactions like ours that indicate that someone's home.
 
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
 
Go ahead and believe in God, if you like, but don't imagine that you have been given any grounds for such a belief by science.
 
Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for words.
 
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
 
An open mind is prerequisite to an open heart.
 
I'd never join a club that would allow a person like me to become a member.
 
In culture after culture, people believe that the soul lives on after death, that rituals can change the physical world and divine the truth, and that illness and misfortune are caused and alleviated by spirits, ghosts, saints ... and gods.
 
Wherever there is a conscious mind, there is a point of view.
 
Violence is often caused by a surfeit of morality and justice, at least as they are conceived in the minds of the perpetrators.
 
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.
 
Anything that contradicts experience and logic should be abandoned.
 
The a priori method is distinguished for its comfortable conclusions. It is the nature of the process to adopt whatever belief we are inclined to, and there are certain flatteries to the vanity of man which we all believe by nature, until we are awakened from our pleasing dream by rough facts.
 
Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.
 
...A few executives here and there read them. The rest of us ignore them for the good and sufficient reason that we have other things to do....
 
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.
 
Believe nothing you hear, and only half of what you see.
 
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