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To be authentic literally means to be your own author.
 
One of the surprising discoveries of modern psychology is how easy it is to be ignorant of your own ignorance.
 
The talkative man speaks from his mouth, the eloquent man speaks from his heart.
 
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much of life. So aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
 
You don't have to travel around the world to understand that the sky is blue everywhere.
 
When men hire themselves out to shoot other men to order, asking nothing about the justice of their cause, I don't care if they are shot themselves.
 
We are struggling with language. We are engaged in a struggle with language.
 
Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.
 
It is utterly astonishing how ordinary a book can be and still be thought the product of omniscience.
 
Lots of work has examined the genes involved, most broadly showing that variants that produce lowered dopamine signaling (less dopamine in the synapse, fewer dopamine receptors, or lower responsiveness of these receptors) are associated with sensation seeking, risk taking, attentional problems, and extroversion. Such individuals have to seek experiences of greater intensity to compensate for the blunted dopamine signaling.
 
Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.
 
Food is an important part of a balanced diet.
 
There is no polite way to suggest to someone that they have devoted their life to a folly.
 
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
 
Like this gas tank, you are overflowing with preconceptions, full of useless knowledge. You hold many facts and opinions, yet know little of yourself. Before you can learn, you'll have to first empty your tank.
 
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
 
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.
 
It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas).
 
There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.
 
Masturbation is having sex with someone you love.
 
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