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The difficulty in philosophy is to say no more than we know.
 
If we make peaceful revolution impossible, we make violent revolution inevitable. 
 
When educating the minds of our youth, we must not forget to educate their hearts.
 
Men's maxims reveal their characters.
 
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
 
Someone else’s action should not determine your response.
 
An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.
 
All that we have invented, the symbols in the church, the rituals, they are all put there by thought. Thought has invented these things. Invented the savior. Invented the temples of India and the contents of the temples. Thought has invented all these things called sacred. You cannot deny that. So thought in itself is not sacred. And when thought invents God, God is not sacred. So what is sacred? That can only be understood or happen when there is complete freedom, from fear, from sorrow, and when there is this sense of love and compassion with it's own intelligence. Then when the mind is utterly still, that which is sacred can take place.
 
Passion is a rather frightening thing because if you have passion you don't know where it will take you.
 
We use judgements as principlesof judegement.
 
An employee within an organization will advance to his or her level of incompetence and remain there.
 
If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
 
When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.
 
The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
 
Near me nothing but distances.
 
Life is a movement, a constant movement in relationship; and thought, trying to capture that movement in terms of the past, as memory, is afraid of life.
 
Doubt is an uneasy and dissatisfied state from which we struggle to free ourselves and pass into the state of belief; while the latter is a calm and satisfactory state which we do not wish to avoid, or to change to a belief in anything else.
 
I do not envy God.
 
The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life. 
 
Man's role is uncertain, undefined, and perhaps unnecessary.
 
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