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Further, an excess of legislation defeats its own ends. It makes the whole population criminals, and turns them all into police and police spies. The…

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Destiny is an absolutely definite and inexorable ruler. Physical ability and moral determination count for nothing. It is impossible to perform the…
Love stories are only fit for the solace of people in the insanity of puberty. No healthy adult human being can really…
Roughly speaking, any man with energy and enthusiasm ought to be able to bring at least a dozen others round to his…
The people who have really made history are the martyrs.
To the eyes of a god, mankind must appear as a species of bacteria which multiply and become progressively virulent whenever they…
Men and women are not free to love decently until they have analyzed themselves completely and swept away every mystery from sex;…
It is a terrible error to let any natural impulse, physical or mental, stagnate. Crush it out, if you will, and be…
What is necessary is not to seek after some fantastic ideal, utterly unsuited to our real needs, but to discover the true…
The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without.
Inevitably anyone with an independent mind must become 'one who resists or opposes authority or established conventions': a rebel. If enough people…
Initiation means the Journey Inwards: nothing is changed or can be changed; but all is trulier understood with every step.
What is the meaning of Initiation? It is the Path to the realisation of your Self as the sole, the supreme, the absolute…

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Violence ever defeats its own ends. Where you cannot drive you can always persuade. A gentle word, a kind look, a god-natured… — William Hazlitt
The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows it to realize… — Carl Jung
The most unequivocal sign of contempt for man is to regard everybody merely as a means to one's own ends, or of… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The cat is domestic only as far as suits its own ends... — Hector Hugh Munro
All sin is selfish, whether it be lying, cheating, stealing, immorality, covetousness, or idleness. Sin is for one's own ends, not for… — Derek A. Cuthbert
They have no consciousness therefore. Therefore what? Therefore we are free to use them for our own ends? Therefore we are free… — J M Coetzee
History, that is to say, the unconscious, universal life of humanity, in the aggregate, every moment profits by the life of kings… — Leo Tolstoy
The air to a glider pilot is a reality. . . . He is trying to understand it in all its moods;… — Unknown Author
Expectations of goals and rewards (such as Enlightenment) are recognized for what they are: last-ditch attempts by the ghostly self to subvert… — Stephen Batchelor
A hypocrite is one who plays two parts consciously for his own ends. When we find fault with other people we may… — Oswald Chambers
I think the success of democracy is not really police security; it's the presence of a broad middle class. The stronger the… — Abdallah II
America is a fundamentally good country. We have good people with good values who want to do the right thing. But the… — Edward Snowden

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