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What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire. — Blaise Pascal
All thoughtful men are solitary and original in themselves. — James Russell Lowell
The 'I' casts off the illusion of the 'I' and yet remains 'I'. Such is the paradox of Self-realization. The Realized do not see any… — Ramana Maharshi
The mind is a mechanism. It has no intelligence. The mind is a bio-computer. How can it have any intelligence? It has skill, but it… — Rajneesh
Mind dissolves only when you don't choose. And when there is no mind, you are for the first time in your crystal clarity, for the… — Rajneesh
Every child has to disobey the father. Unless a child disobeys the father he never becomes mature. It is nothing, original, it is very simple… — Rajneesh
Man ordinarily is a robot. He lives apparently awake, but not really. He walks, he talks, he acts, but it is all as if in… — Rajneesh
Spirituality is your original face; it is the discovery of your intrinsic nature. — Rajneesh
To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost. — Barbara Tuchman
Originality implies a return to the origins, original is returning to the simplicity of the first solutions. — Antonio Gaudi
I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes. — Billy Joel
The human mind prefers to be spoon-fed with the thoughts of others, but deprived of such nourishment it will, reluctantly, begin to think for itself… — Agatha Christie
If there is a regulation that says you have to do something-whether it be putting in seat belts, catalytic converters, clean air for coal plants,… — Steven Chu
Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main bulwark. — Walter Lippmann
How novel and original must be each new mans view of the universe - for though the world is so old - and so many… — Henry David Thoreau
A chess problem is genuine mathematics, but it is in some way "trivial" mathematics. However, ingenious and intricate, however original and surprising the moves, there… — G. H. Hardy
By this we may understand, there be two sorts of knowledge, whereof the one is nothing else but sense, or knowledge original (as I have… — Thomas Hobbes
It is of great advantage to the student of any subject to read the original memoirs on that subject, for science is always most completely… — James Clerk Maxwell
Truths are known to us in two ways: some are known directly, and of themselves; some through the medium of other truths. The former are… — John Stuart Mill
In the last two months I have been very busy with my own mathematical speculations, which have cost me much time, without my having reached… — Carl Friedrich Gauss

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