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The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.
 
We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.
 
Most of the time I don't have much fun. The rest of the time I don't have any fun at all.
 
Anything your reader can do for himself leave to him.
 
It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens.
 
Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.
 
What I have tried to show is that the scientific attitude implies what I call the postulate of objectivity - that is to say, the fundamental postulate that there is no plan, that there is no intention in the universe.
 
Modern man lives under the illusion that he knows what he wants, while he actually wants what he is supposed to want.
 
When you lose, don't lose the lesson.
 
The poet must not cross an interval with a step when he can cross it with a leap.
 
Scientists, operating in the various disciplines, are encapsulated in their private universe, and it is difficult to get word from one cocoon to the other.
 
If you can change your mind, you can change your life.
 
The vilest abortionist is he who attempts to mould a child’s character.
 
I give no sources, because it is indifferent to me whether what I have thought has already been thought before me by another.
 
There is no ideal in observation. When you have an ideal, you cease to observe, you are then merely approximating the present to the idea, and therefore there is duality, conflict, and all the rest of it. The mind has to be in the state when it can see, observe. The experience of the observation is really an astonishing state. In that there is no duality. The mind is simply - aware.
 
The worst of all deceptions is self-deception.
 
There is a growing movement called Humanism, which promotes a non-supernatural basis for meaning and ethics: good without God.
 
Who do you turn to when the only person who can stop your tears, is the one that's causing them?
 
Mahavira, the Jain patriarch, surpassed the morality of the Bible with a single sentence: Do not injure, abuse, oppress, enslave, insult, torment, torture, or kill any creature or living being. Imagine how different our world might be if the Bible contained this as its central precept.
 
Poverty becomes a marvellously beautiful thing when the mind is free of society. One must become poor inwardly for then there is no seeking, no asking, no desire, no - nothing! It is only this inward poverty that can see the truth of a life in which there is no conflict at all.
 
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