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We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
 
A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.
 
We need to stop looking to politicians to make our world better. Politicians don't make the world a better place. Everything that's ever made the world a better place has come from inventors, engineers, scientists, teachers, artists, builders, philosophers, healers, and people that choose love over hate.
 
If you want a real meaning, and you can’t find one, it’s all very well to make one up — but I don’t see how that solves any problems. ... Unless you say how God works, saying that God exists doesn’t explain anything.
 
You wound and you will wound again. Because you wound and then you go away. You do not stay with the wound.
 
Narratives are not fixed. We change our narratives for ourselves and we change them not necessarily deliberately. In other words, some people do, some people will constantly reconstruct their biography for external purposes, it's a very interesting political ploy.
 
CAT: A lapwarmer with a built-in buzzer.
 
The root of happiness is altruism - the wish to be of service to others.
 
The freedom to think out loud on certain topics, without fear of being hounded into hiding or killed, has already been lost.
 
Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
 
More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other's well-being, is source of happiness.
 
There is only one journey. Going inside yourself.
 
Politicians are a lot like diapers. They should be changed frequently, and for the same reason.
 
It might be well for all of us to remember that, while differing widely in the various little bits we know, in our infinite ignorance we are all equal.
 
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
 
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
 
But among many professional women the existence of sex differences is still a source of discomfort. As one colleague said to me, "Look, I know that males and females are not identical. I see it in my kids, I see it in myself, I know about the research. I can't explain it, but when I read claims of sex differences, steam comes out of my ears."
 
Climate change could produce a lot of misery and waste without necessarily leading to large-scale armed conflict, which depends more on ideology and bad governance than on resource scarcity.
 
We are most of us governed by epistemologies that we know to be wrong.
 
Even though its common knowledge these days, it never ceases to amaze me that all the richness of our mental life - all our feelings, our emotions, our thoughts, our ambitions, our love life, our religious sentiments and even what each of us regards us his own intimate private self - is simply the activity of these little specks of jelly in your head, in your brain. There is nothing else.
 
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