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The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.

What information consumes is rather obvious: It consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.

Blaming "society" makes it awfully easy for a person of weak character to shrug off his own responsibility for his actions.

Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus imagination.

If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.

Of all sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.

Everything that we think God has in his mind necessarily proceeds from our own mind; it is what we imagine to be in God's mind, and it is really difficult for human intelligence to guess at a divine intelligence. What we usually end up with by this sort of reasoning is to make God the color-sergeant of our army and to make Him as chauvinistic as ourselves.

No child is born with a really cold heart, and it is only in proportion as we lose that youthful heart that we lose the inner warmth in ourselves.

The more adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it is to make plans for the future, and therefore the more likely it is that more people will make more plans in such areas.

The most basic question is not what is best but who shall decide what is best.

Simplicity is the outward sign and symbol of depth of thought.

It is important that man dreams, but it is perhaps equally important that he can laugh at his own dreams.

Always behave like a duck- keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath.

There are two modes of acquiring knowledge, namely by reasoning and experience. Reasoning draws a conclusion and makes us grant the conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, nor does it remove doubt so that the mind may rest on the intuition of truth, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.

We should listen first and foremost to our own experience...We should stop looking for saviors... Society has not existed for thousands of years because it had a succession of saviors. It's existed because it has institutions and processes through which people can realize their own goals.

Such is human psychology that if we don't express our joy, we soon cease to feel it.

Let us face ourselves bravely as we are. For only a philosophy that recognizes reality can lead us into true happiness, and only that kind of philosophy is sound and healthy.

Happy is he who bears a god within.

If you hate something thoroughly without knowing why, you can be sure there is something of it in your own nature.

The first thing a man will do for his ideals is lie.