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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…
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Love stories are only fit for the solace of people in the insanity of puberty. No healthy adult human being can really…
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Roughly speaking, any man with energy and enthusiasm ought to be able to bring at least a dozen others round to his…
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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.
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To the eyes of a god, mankind must appear as a species of bacteria which multiply and become progressively virulent whenever they…
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Men and women are not free to love decently until they have analyzed themselves completely and swept away every mystery from sex;…
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It is a terrible error to let any natural impulse, physical or mental, stagnate. Crush it out, if you will, and be…
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What is necessary is not to seek after some fantastic ideal, utterly unsuited to our real needs, but to discover the true…
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The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without.
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Inevitably anyone with an independent mind must become 'one who resists or opposes authority or established conventions': a rebel. If enough people…
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Initiation means the Journey Inwards: nothing is changed or can be changed; but all is trulier understood with every step.
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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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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.
— Max Beerbohm
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To put your life in danger from time to time... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities.
— Nevil Shute
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The less one remembers about the day before, the more the new day will be unfettered by triviality.
— George Benson
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You ought to know how to rise above the trivialities of life, in which most people are found drowning themselves.
— Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
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I have never done anything 'useful'. No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good…
— G. H. Hardy
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As no darkness can be seen by anyone surrounded by light, so no trivialities can capture the attention of anyone who has…
— Gregory of Nyssa
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There are two sorts of truth: trivialities, where opposites are clearly absurd, and profound truths, recognised by the fact that the opposite…
— Niels Bohr
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It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with…
— George Eliot
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Books are a triviality. Life alone is great.
— Thomas Carlyle
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A modern building should derive its architectural significance solely from the vigour and consequence of its own organic proportions. It must be…
— Walter Gropius
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What could you say to a dying person that would not enrage by its triviality?
— Annie Dillard
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