#philosophy

"Be a great artist especially when you draw your life’s picture."

"A prudent man should always follow in the path trodden by great men and imitate those who are most excellent, so that if he does not attain to their greatness, at any rate he will get some tinge of it."

"The universe danced towards life. Life was a remarkably common commodity. Anything sufficiently complicated seemed to get cut in for some, in the same way that anything massive enough got a generous helping of gravity. The universe had a definite tendency towards awareness. This suggested a certain subtle cruelty woven into the very fabric of space-time."

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"We can't avoid reasoning; we can only avoid doing it well."

"The church has never been asked to explain anything, our speciality, along with ballistics, has always been the neutralisation of the overly curious mind through faith."

"The stronger a culture, the less it fears the radical fringe. The more paranoid and precarious a culture, the less tolerance it offers."

"For Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and Passion, unattended,is a flame that burns to its own destruction."

"Flexibility makes buildings to be stronger, imagine what it can do to your soul."

"Be a vessel of forgiveness and kindness in order to be a fountain of peace."

"It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me."

"The best reaction to a paradox is to invent a genuinely new and deep idea."

"One says the things which one feels the need to say, and which the other will not understand: one speaks for oneself alone."

"When you use your energy and resources to punish people, you run out of energy and resources to protect people."

"We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be."

"You can never achieve greatness until you can leave bitterness behind."

"Tomorrow belongs to those who are sincerely learning and loving today."

"Mind Maneuvers When we hear something unflattering,our mind doesn't fully process it.When we hear a compliment,the mind goes into overdriveand tend to read too much into it."

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"Without judging anyone, let us love everyone like a flower."