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There is no false sensation.
 
Religion, like love and music, is natural. But so are smoking, war, and death.
 
The old dreams were good dreams; they didn't work out but I'm glad I had them.
 
Hegel seems to me to be always wanting to say that things which look different are really the same. Whereas my interest is in showing that things which look the same are really different. I was thinking of using as a motto for my book a quotation from King Lear: 'I’ll teach you differences'.
 
The worst of all deceptions is self-deception.
 
Temperamentally anxious people can have a hard time staying motivated, period, because their intense focus on their worries distracts them from their goals.
 
Once a year go somewhere you have never been before.
 
Management problems are not respecters of the company organization, nor of the talents of the people appointed to solve them.
 
This civilization has not yet fully recovered from the shock of its birth — the transition from the tribal or "enclosed society," with its submission to magical forces, to the 'open society' which sets free the critical powers of man.
 
The shadows: some hide, others reveal.
 
We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
 
Few persons care to study logic, because everybody conceives himself to be proficient enough in the art of reasoning already.
 
A hypothesis is something which looks as if it might be true and were true, and which is capable of verification or refutation by comparison with facts.
 
The more a man possesses over and above what he uses, the more careworn he becomes.
 
The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.
 
The propensity to make strong emotional bonds to particular individuals [is] a basic component of human nature.
 
Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.
 
I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men.
 
If babies held the same tendency toward self-criticism as adults, they might never learn to walk or talk. Can you imagine infants stomping, 'Aarggh! Screwed up again!' Fortunately, babies are free of self-criticism. They just keep practicing.
 
The process of comparison and condemnation prevents you from observing, studying. So a real student is one who observes everything in life, outwardly as well as inwardly, without comparing, approving, or condemning.
 
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