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"Under the guise of being nice guys, the central bankers have done to the people what no army in history has been evil enough to do."

"I can’t use my intellect to figure out how to bypass my intellect. Love lies through the spirit, not the mind, and love never lies."

"We accept the love we think we deserve."

"What was my truth worth, if I was prepared to defend the entire world, but not those who were close to me? If I subdued hate, but wouldn't give love a chance?"

"Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth."

"We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities."

"Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth."

"Herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor, — all men know something of poverty; not that men are wicked, — who is good? not that men are ignorant, — what is Truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men."

"The fruit of empty hopes is more bitter than the saddest truth."

"It is so difficult - at least, I find it difficult - to understand people who speak the truth."

"Interviewer: Didn't Sagan want to believe?Druyan: he didn't want to believe. he wanted to know."

"Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand"

"Start telling the truth now and never stop. Begin by telling the truth to yourself about yourself. Then tell the truth to yourself about someone else. Then tell the truth about yourself to another. Then tell the truth about another to that other. Finally, tell the truth to everyone about everything. These are the 5 levels of truth telling. This is the five-fold path to freedom."

"Every person must choose how much truth he can stand."

"One lie has the power to tarnish a thousand truths."

"There’s no such thing as ruining your life. Life’s a pretty resilient thing, it turns out."

"His readiness to undergo persecutions for his beliefs, the high moral character of the men who believed in him and looked up to him as leader, and the greatness of his ultimate achievement - all argue his fundamental integrity. To suppose Muhammad an impostor raises more problems than it solves. Moreover, none of the great figures of history is so poorly appreciated in the West as Muhammad"

"Nin knew how much humans loved money, riches, and material things—though he never really could understand why. The more technologically advanced the human species got, the more isolated they seemed to become, at the same time. It was alarming, how humans could spend entire lifetimes engaged in all kinds of activities, without getting any closer to knowing who they really were, inside."

"Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books..."

"I always make sure that the world will prove me right. It gives me the freedom to contradict myself."