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Another source of conviction in the existence of God, connected with the reason and not with the feelings, impresses me as having much more weight.… — Charles Darwin
First, whenever a man talks loudly against religion, always suspect that it is not his reason, but his passions, which have got the better of… — Laurence Sterne
When it was first said that the sun stood still and world turned round, the common sense of mankind declared the doctrine false; but the… — Charles Darwin
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… — Aldous Huxley
But who prays for Satan? Who in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most, our… — Mark Twain
It was Christianity which first painted the devil on the worlds walls; It was Christianity which first brought sin into the world. Belief in the… — Friedrich Nietzsche
A first grader should understand that her or his culture isn't a rational invention; that there are thousands of other cultures and they all work… — Kurt Vonnegut
I was this young boy and I saw this man with his hands round my sister's neck, I was just standing there with her two… — Alexander McQueen
First, meditation should be of a negative nature. Think away everything. Analyse everything that comes in the mind by the sheer action of the will.… — Swami Vivekananda
That's the moment of enlightenment. That is the moment that you become for the first time an unconditioned, sane, really free human being. — Rajneesh
To live moment to moment is the life of meditation. Then life becomes spontaneous without any effort; then nobody can make you miserable, nobody can… — Rajneesh
In fact everything can become a sort of meditation, because in everything there are two dimensions - just as there are in the first breath:… — Rajneesh
Objects must cease, mind must become just a pure mirror - a mirroring, not mirroring anything - just a mirror without any object in it,… — Rajneesh
We built a foundation called the 3HO Foundation: a Healthy, Happy, Holy Organization of people. The first song I sang was, "We are the people,… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi
The wise man puts himself last and finds himself first. — Laozi
The first thing to realize in meditation is that there is no authority, that the mind must be completely free to examine, to observe, to… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Lincoln's appeal to 'the better angels of our nature' failed to avert a fratricidal war. But the compassionate wisdom of Lincoln's first and second inaugurals… — Felix Frankfurter
When we are going to enter the water ... in the presence of the congregation and under the hand of the president, we solemnly profess… — Tertullian
Appraise war in terms of the fundamental factors. The first of these factors is moral influence. — Sun Tzu
The end and aim of spying in all its five varieties is knowledge of the enemy; and this knowledge can only be derived, in the… — Sun Tzu

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