If you don’t know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.
Emotions are inherent in your nature, but their content is dictated by your mind.
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People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I've learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one's reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one's master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person's view requires to be faked.
Since men are neither omniscient nor infallible, they must be free to agree or disagree, to cooperate or to pursue their own independent course, each according to his own rational judgment. Freedom is the fundamental requirement of man's mind.
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.
Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.
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We can secure other people’s approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.
Peaces comes from within. Do not seek it without.
A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages.
Being aware of a single shortcoming within yourself is far more useful than being aware of a thousand in someone else!
The clearest way in the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
Much of the evil in the world is due to the fact that man in general is hopelessly unconscious.
You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.
Ignorance never settle a question.
You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.
