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We know the meaning so long as no one asks us to define it.
 
I am what I am because of who we all are. (Principle of Ubuntu philosophy)
 
Truth is not something that can be followed; it has to be discovered. You cannot find truth through any book or through any accumulation of experience.
 
No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.
 
We philosophers are mistake specialists.
 
I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
 
Most of the time I don't have much fun. The rest of the time I don't have any fun at all.
 
A true spiritual practitioner is someone who has discovered that it is possible to be at ease in the world for no reason, if only for a few moments at a time, and that such ease is synonymous with transcending the apparent boundaries of the self.
 
All things living are in search of a better world.
 
If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.
 
Photographs can be seen as tiny quotes from the text of the larger, real world.
 
Go ahead and believe in God, if you like, but don't imagine that you have been given any grounds for such a belief by science.
 
We'll show you that you can build a mind from many little parts, each mindless by itself.
 
The difference between faith and insanity is that faith is the ability to hold firmly to a conclusion that is incompatible with the evidence, whereas insanity is the ability to hold firmly to a conclusion that is incompatible with the evidence.
 
Amazing the advances we make in science and the primitive uses we find for them.
 
The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choices of action.
 
What surprises me most is “Man”, because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he doesn’t enjoy the present; The result being he doesn’t live in the present or the future; He lives as if he’s never going to die, and then he dies having never really lived.
 
Perhaps there is no such thing as unilateral power. After all, the man in power depends on receiving information all the time from outside. He responds to that information just as much as he causes things to happen... it is an interaction, and not a lineal situation.
 
In the long run I certainly hope information is the cure for fanaticism, but I am afraid information is more the cause than the cure.
 
Whenever you can, count.
 
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