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The opposite of love is not hate; its opposite is indifference.
 
Much more than our other needs and endeavors, it is sexuality that puts us on an even footing with our kind: the more we practice it, the more we become like everyone else: it is in the performance of a reputedly bestial function that we prove our status as citizens: nothing is more public than the sexual act.
 
Love is a state of being, and in that state, the 'me', with its identifications, anxieties, and possessions is absent. Love cannot be, as long as the activities of the self, of the 'me', whether conscious or unconscious, continue to exist.
 
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. 
 
Any curriculum will be pedagogically ineffective if it consists of a lecturer yammering in front of a blackboard, or a textbook that students highlight with a yellow marker. People understand concepts only when they are forced to think them through, to discuss them with others, and to use them to solve problems.
 
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
 
Philosophers who know only philosophy consign themselves to a janitorial role in the great enterprises of exploration that are illuminating the mysteries of our lives.
 
A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
 
A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.
 
Do not live for others any more than you would expect others to live for you.
 
One can live without ever having seen oneself, without knowing the color of one’s skin.
 
You are just an insecure little girl in desperate need of attention.
 
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. 
 
It is obvious that an imagined world, however different it may be from the real one, must have something - a form - in common with it.
 
Most propositions and questions, that have been written about philosophical matters, are not false, but senseless. ... (They are of the same kind as the question whether the Good is more or less identical than the Beautiful.)
 
Tell me what you are reading and I will tell you who you are.
 
The hours of your life are the most valuable currency you will ever have. How will you spend them?
 
Curiosity illuminates the correct path to anything in life. If you're not curious, that's when your brain is starting to die.
 
Thus, when a superior intellect and a psychopathic temperament coalesce...in the same individual, we have the best possible conditions for the kind of effective genius that gets into the biographical dictionaries. Such men do not remain mere critics and understanders with their intellect. Their ideas posses them, they inflict them, for better or worse, upon their companions or their age.
 
Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.
 
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