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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
 
Everyone tells you what's good for you. they don't want you to find your own answers. they want you to believe theirs.
 
Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.
 
The whole trend of your previous education and all your habits of thought are bound to make you into opponents of psychoanalysis.
 
When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.
 
People are just as wonderful as sunsets if you let them be. When I look at a sunset, I don't find myself saying, "Soften the orange a bit on the right hand corner." I don't try to control a sunset. I watch with awe as it unfolds.
 
There is direction but there is no destination.
 
The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.
 
I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
 
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification. 
 
What we find in philosophy is trivial; it does not teach us new facts, only science does that.
 
Life is a continuous flux. Our nonhuman ancestors bred, generation after generation, and incrementally begat what we now deem to be the species homo sapiens - ourselves. There is nothing about our ancestral line or about our current biology that dictates how we will evolve in the future. Nothing in the natural order demands that our descendants resemble us in any particular way. Very likely, they will not resemble us. We will almost certainly transform ourselves, likely beyond recognition, in the generations to come.
 
Visits always give pleasure--if not the arrival, the departure.
 
Without any conviction whatsoever nobody can be expected to have much courage.
 
The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.
 
Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.
 
The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
 
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
 
Most sociopolitical hierarchies lack a logical or biological basis – they are nothing but the perpetuation of chance events supported by myths.
 
The truly faithless one is the one who makes love to only a fraction of you. And denies the rest.
 
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