philosophy

"Flow is the best of what happens when potential is activated by consciousness."

"And this is the forbidden truth, the unspeakable taboo - that evil is not always repellent but frequently attractive; that it has the power to make of us not simply victims, as nature and accident do, but active accomplices."

"The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without: to follow one's own path, not that of the crowd."

"At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear."

"Question everything, unless it's the answer"

"It is evident as a matter of logic that, since they (world religions) disagree, not more than one of them can be true."

"Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star."

"You say, it's dark. And in truth, I did place a cloud before your sun. But do you not see how the edges of the cloud are already glowing and turning light."

"Herpes [10w] Only greatness and genital herpes are conspicuous by their absence."

"People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does."

"Pride makes us artificial; humility makes us real"

"Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity."

"By the time we began to understand enough about what the world to ask the right questions, our visit is over, and someone else is visiting, asking the same questions."

"الكتب كالبشر .. قليل منها يلعب دورا عظيما"

"Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody."

"My mind is a lock pick always looking for another door to open. I often find those doors by exploring minds of others..."

"Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories."

"...the only way to judge a philosophy is to examine the lives of those who live it."

"Tom felt his darkness. His father was beautiful and clever, his mother was short and mathematically sure. Each of his brothers and sisters had looks or gifts or fortune. Tom loved all of them passionately, but he felt heavy and earth-bound. He climbed ecstatic mountains and floundered in the rocky darkness between the peaks. He had spurts of bravery but they were bracketed in battens of cowardice."

"Leaving your religion and having to invent your own system of values is a big deal, after all."