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Anger is the ultimate destroyer of your own peace of mind.
 
Modern science is characterized by its ever-increasing specialization, necessitated by the enormous amount of data, the complexity of techniques and of theoretical structures within every field. Thus science is split into innumerable disciplines continually generating new subdisciplines. In consequence, the physicist, the biologist, the psychologist and the social scientist are, so to speak, encapusulated in their private universes, and it is difficult to get word from one cocoon to the other.
 
I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
 
We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.
 
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
 
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
 
The most socially significant events in life are the ones that are ritually bracketed and framed, i.e., ceremonies.
 
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
 
The very desire to be certain, to be secure, is the beginning of bondage. It's only when the mind is not caught in the net of certainty, and is not seeking certainty, that it is in a state of discovery.
 
DESTINY: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
 
The fact that a theory so vague, so insufficiently verifiable, and so far from the criteria otherwise applied in 'hard' science has become a dogma can only be explained on sociological grounds.
 
I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what’s next.
 
Chance alone is at the source of all novelty, all creation in the biosphere.
 
Peace does not mean an absence of conflicts; differences will always be there. Peace means solving these differences through peaceful means; through dialogue, education, knowledge; and through humane ways.
 
We are not thinking machines that feel; rather, we are feeling machines that think.
 
He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.
 
As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.
 
Your parents and society use that word duty as a means of molding you, shaping you according to their particular idiosyncrasies, their habits of thought, their likes and dislikes, hoping thereby to guarantee their own safety.
 
Thinking is difficult, so most of us judge.
 
One age misunderstands another; and a petty age misunderstands all the others in its own nasty way.
 
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