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As individual people, embedded in our daily lives, of course we're interested in what makes one person different from another. We've got to hire one person and not another, marry one person and not another.
 
Everything is a game except what makes the soul better or worse.
 
Russell's books should be bound in two colours, those dealing with mathematical logic in red — and all students of philosophy should read them; those dealing with ethics and politics in blue — and no one should be allowed to read them.
 
Most of the propositions and questions to be found in philosophical works are not false but nonsensical.
 
Theology is now little more than a branch of human ignorance.
 
Lofty questions about the mind are fascinating to ask, philosophers have been asking them for three millennia both in India where I am from and here in the West - but it is only in the brain that we can eventually hope to find the answers.
 
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
 
Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy.
 
There are times to let things happen, and times to make things happen. Now is that time. You will either make things happen, watch what happens, or wonder what happened.
 
Someone stole all my credit cards, but I won't report it. The thief spends less than my wife.
 
We have a choice. We have two options as human beings. We have a choice between conversation and war. That's it. Conversation and violence. And faith is a conversation stopper.
 
Mutual respect is the foundation of genuine harmony.
 
In Buddhism, ignorance as the root cause of suffering refers to a fundamental misperception of the true nature of the self and all phenomena.
 
Nothing we can do can change the past, but everything we do changes the future.
 
Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social, and even political.
 
We find things that do not fit into familiar frameworks hard to understand – such things seem meaningless.
 
The poet must not cross an interval with a step when he can cross it with a leap.
 
If you begin by sacrificing yourself to those you love, you will end by hating those to whom you have sacrificed yourself.
 
The truth that we must finally confront is that Islam contains specific notions of martyrdom and jihad that fully explain the character of Muslim violence.
 
Maxims, because what is isolated can be seen better.
 
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