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It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
 
Marriage is the waste-paper basket of the emotions.
 
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.
 
Il miglior combattente non è mai arrabbiato.
 
Governments want efficient technicians, not human beings, because human beings become dangerous to governments – and to organized religions as well. That is why governments and religious organizations seek to control education.
 
Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the self-reliance of every one of its members.
 
Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned.
 
Everything that is said is said by an observer.
 
...along with all the complexes of a great power Russia is suffering a strong inferiority complex, typical of small countries.
 
When I am furious about something, I sometimes beat the ground or a tree with my walking stick. But I certainly do not believe that the ground is to blame or that my beating can help anything... And all rites are of this kind.
 
What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truth from its errors.
 
One of the perks of being a psychologist is access to tools that allow you to carry out the injunction to know thyself.
 
Better never begin; once begun, better finish.
 
Unlike statements of fact, which require no further work on our part, lies must be continually protected from collisions with reality.
 
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, wityout any other reason but because they are not common.
 
There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.
 
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
 
To compare is the very nature of a mind that is not awake to discover what is true.
 
By an object, I mean anything that we can think, i.e. anything we can talk about.
 
To be sensitively aware of thought, of feeling, of the world about you, of your office and of nature, is to explode from moment to moment in affection. Without affection, every action becomes burdensome and mechanical and leads to decay.
 
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