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Light is so empowering that it serves as the metaphor of choice for a superior intellectual and spiritual state: enlightenment.
 
Happy is the man who is nothing.
 
Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.
 
For philosophical problems arise when language goes on holiday.
 
It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.
 
The average level of happiness increases in old age; fewer negative emotions occur and, when they do, they don’t persist as long. Connected to this, brain-imaging studies show that negative images have less of an impact, and positive images have more of an impact on brain metabolism in older people, as compared to young.
 
If you aren't just brought up in your tribe but interact with other people either directly or vicariously, through journalism and literature, you see what life is like from other points of view and are less likely to demonize them or dehumanize others and more likely to empathize with them.
 
All things living are in search of a better world.
 
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
 
The way we behave in public is often very different from the way we behave in private.
 
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
 
Man lives in a world of Meaning. What he sees and hears means what he will or might handle.
 
Capitalism' is a dirty word for many intellectuals, but there are a number of studies showing that open economies and free trade are negatively correlated with genocide and war.
 
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning.
 
One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
 
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
 
We're living in primate heaven. We're warm, dry, we're not hungry, we don't have fleas and ticks and infections. So why are we so miserable?
 
He who gives money he has not earned is generous with other people’s labor.
 
Give me a morality that equally suits the healthy and the sick, men and women, children, adults, and old people.
 
I used to want to be an old man when I was a kid. Now I'm an old man and my kids are growing, I think I want to be a kid.
 
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