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- For the first time in the history of the world, Buddhism proclaimed a salvation which each individual could gain from him or herself, in this…
- Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in…
- I've never discussed my writing with others much, but I don't believe it can do any harm. I don't think that there's any risk that…
- Modern man no longer regards Nature as in any sense divine and feels perfectly free to behave toward her as an overweening conqueror and tyrant.
- At any given moment, life is completely senseless. But viewed over a period, it seems to reveal itself as an organism existing in time, having…
- A type of revolutionary novelty may be extremely beautiful in itself; but, for the creatures of habit that we are, its very novelty tends to…
- A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.
- Primroses and landscapes, he pointed out, have one grave defect: they are gratuitous. A love of nature keeps no factories busy. It was decided to…
- The history of any nation follows an undulatory course. In the trough of the wave we find more or less complete anarchy; but the crest…
- I am entirely on the side of mystery. I mean, any attempt to explain away the mystery is ridiculous. I believe in the profound and…
- There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be…
- Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.
- Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.
- It is possible to argue that the really influential book is not that which converts ten millions of casual readers, but rather that which converts…
- The place is good. How good, one must have circumnavigated the globe to discover. Why not stay? Take root? But roots are chains. I have…
- We are not our own any more than what we possess is our own. We did not make ourselves, we cannot be supreme over ourselves.…
- I used to think I had no will to power. Now I perceive that I vented it on thoughts, rather than people. Conquering an unknown…
- For every traveller who has any taste of his own, the only useful guidebook will be the one which he himself has written.
- In any race between human numbers and natural resources, time is against us.
- All democracies are based on the proposition that power is very dangerous and that it is extremely important not to let any one person or…
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