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Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.
 
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
 
The great delusion of modernity, is that the laws of nature explain the universe for us. The laws of nature describe the universe, they describe the regularities. But they explain nothing.
 
The work of art is the object seen sub specie aeternitatis; and the good life is the world seen sub specie aeternitatis. This is the connection between art and ethics.
 
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. 
 
It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.
 
As long as we think we are worth something, we wrong ourselves.
 
Do not go where the path may lead; instead go where there is no path and leave a trail.
 
You have to stay in shape. My mother started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 now and we have no idea where she is.
 
When you seem to be listening to my words, they seem to be your words, with me listening.
 
You don't get to advertise all the good that your religion does without first scrupulously subtracting all the harm it does and considering seriously the question of whether some other religion, or no religion at all, does better.
 
Maxims, because what is isolated can be seen better.
 
Go ahead and believe in God, if you like, but don't imagine that you have been given any grounds for such a belief by science.
 
If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets a R rating, but if, God forbid, a man is pictured kissing a woman's breast, it gets an X rating. Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness?
 
It’s not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but those most responsive to change.
 
Hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do.
 
As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.
 
The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
 
Commerce, trade and exchange make other people more valuable alive than dead, and mean that people try to anticipate what the other guy needs and wants. It engages the mechanisms of reciprocal altruism, as the evolutionary biologists call it, as opposed to raw dominance.
 
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
 
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