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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
Carl Jung
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The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.
Carl Jung
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The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
Mark Twain
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To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.
Thomas Paine
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Men are so simple of mind, and so much dominated by their immediate needs, that a deceitful man will always find plenty who are ready to be deceived.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.
Edward de Bono
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
Baruch Spinoza
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Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.
Voltaire
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The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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Patience is the companion of wisdom.
Augustine
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You have two choices: to control your mind or to let your mind control you.
Paulo Coelho
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The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
Descartes
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There are people who make us suffer. It is because they are suffering themselves and spill their pains over, at anybody facing. They are their first victims. Instead of punishment they should be cured.
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What gets us into trouble is not what we don’t know. It’s what we know for sure that just ain’t so.
Mark Twain
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It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
Aristotle
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Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell
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Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.
Unknown
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We have been raised to fear our deepest cravings. And the fear of our deepest cravings keeps them suspect, keeps us docile and loyal and obedient, and leads us to settle for many facets of our own oppression.
Audre Lorde
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It is not titles that honor men, but men that honour titles.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
Voltaire
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True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
William Penn
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Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
Carl Jung
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The stability of modern governments above the ancient, and the accuracy of modern philosophy, have improved, and probably will still improve, by similar gradations.
David Hume
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Time is not a line, but a series of now-points.
Taisen Deshimaru
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Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more to take away.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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It’s not that I’m so smart. It’s just that I stay with problems longer.
Albert Einstein
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More is lost by indecision than by wrong decision.
Cicero
