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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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Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
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Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
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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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In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order. (Carl Jung)
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We do not see the world, we see the world we can describe. (Rene Descartes)
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Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought. (Martin Heidegger)
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The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities. (Stephen Hawking)
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The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity. (Voltaire)
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Our free will is in direct relation with our intelligence. The more intelligent one is, the more one is able to see options. Intelligence gives rise to options, and options give us the impression of free will. The wiser one is, the freer he becomes.
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Aestheticism and radicalism must lead us to jettison reason, and to replace it by a desperate hope for political miracles. This irrational attitude which springs from intoxication with dreams of a beautiful world is what I call Romanticism. It may seek its heavenly city in the past or in the future; it may preach ‘back to nature’ or ‘forward to a world of love and beauty’; but its appeal is always to our emotions rather than to reason. Even with the best intentions of making heaven on earth it only succeeds in making it a hell – that hell which man alone prepares for his fellow-men.
Karl Popper, The Open Society and its Enemies
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There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion. (Montesquieu)
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Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance. (Hannah Arendt)
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Observing the problems from the above helps us to comprehend the entire scene from a higher perspective. Then the problems would not be as important as what they seemed to be.
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In order to have peace of mind, we should not allow people and events influence our thoughts. We need to train ourselves to avoid any unnecessary reactions towards incidents.
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It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
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The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
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Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. (Ernest Hemingway)
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As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. (Carl Jung)
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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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If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself. (Martin Heidegger)
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The past has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that. (Eckhart Tolle)
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts. (Aristotle)
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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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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say. (Will Durant)
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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory but progress. (Karl Popper)
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There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice. (Montesquieu)
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We can’t let go of thinking; it’s just part of being human. But we can choose not to get caught up in our thoughts. When we allow our thoughts to flow through us without attaching to them or analyzing them, we create space for peace and clarity.
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Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. (John Adams)
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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power. (Alvin Toffler)
