To be loved, we should merit but little esteem; all superiority attracts awe and aversion. — Claude Adrien Helvetius Copy Share Image
Loss aversion is a really disproportionate anxiety about stuff that doesn't matter very much. So for instance, if you lose $5, you… — Tim Harford Copy Share Image
Sentient beings, self and others, enemies and dear ones-all are made by thoughts. It is like seeing a rope and mistaking it… — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche Copy Share Image
You see, if the height of the mercury [barometer] column is less on the top of a mountain than at the foot… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Every moment think steadily as a Roman and a man to do what thou hast in hand with perfect and simple dignity,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The church is an organisation that institutionalises an aversion to homosexuality, it institutionalises gender inequality and it speaks from a place of… — Hozier Copy Share Image
Wine is the source of the greatest evils among communities. It causes diseases, quarrels, seditions, idleness, aversion to labor, and family disorders.… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Men almost universally have acknowledged providence, but that fact has had no force to destroy natural aversions and fears in the presence… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Below, we itemize some of the quite different lessons investors seem to have learned as of late 2009 - false lessons, we… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
Attachment and aversion are the root cause of karma, and karma originates from infatuation. Karma is the root cause of birth and… — Mahavira Copy Share Image
In contrast to the speculators preoccupation with rapid gain, value investors demonstrate their risk aversion by striving to avoid loss. — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
What we have to learn, in both meditation and in life, is to be free of attachment to the good experiences, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am principled against this kind of traffic in the human species . . . and to disperse the families I have an aversion. — George Washington Copy Share Image
One who shows signs of mental aberration is, inevitably, perhaps, but cruelly, shut off from familiar, thoughtless intercourse, partly excommunicated; his isolation… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
Wake up and realize this is all made up of thoughts, just thoughts. Your appreciation of beauty is a thought; your aversion… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
Let us admit that most of us writers feel an essential aversion to politics. By taking such a position, however, we accept… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
As you go into the light, you will gain a more profound happiness. That happiness will free you from the desire-aversion cycle. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Focusing on being a person instead of an Asian or an [anything] seems to promote a worldview that encourages people to treat… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
I wonder whether our adoption of Shrink-ese as a second language, the move from religious phrases of judgment to secular words of… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
Attraction and aversion create a sense of self. There is no self. They are just thoughts. They are insubstantial. When you die,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Good and Evil are names that signify our appetites and aversions, which in different tempers, customs, and doctrines of men, are different:… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
I was assigned to the Waffen-SS but was never involved in any crime. Besides, I always felt the need to write about… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
Those of us forced to read the London papers sometimes speculate about which is greater: the average British hack's sloth, mendacity, ignorance,… — Larry King Copy Share Image
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