The hardest thing to explain is the glaring evident which everybody had decided not to see.
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The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.
A society that tolerates intimidation as a means of settling disputes…loses its moral rights to exist as a social system, and its collapse does not take long to follow.
If you don’t know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.
I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
It's a rare gift, you know, to feel reverence for your own life and to want the best, the greatest, the highest possible, here, now, for your very own.
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One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes.
When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision.
You and only you are responsible for your life choices and decisions.
Pain is certain, suffering is optional.
Our life does not develop as a result of chance, but as a result of causes.
Decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.
Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.
To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction: or, the mutual actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal, and directed to contrary parts.
We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.
Some people live as though they are already dead. There are people moving around us who are consumed by their past, terrified of their future, and stuck in their anger and jealousy. They are not alive; they are just walking corpses.
If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it—but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
I drink to make other people more interesting.
At the end of the day, we can endure more than we think we can.
The universe is wider than our views of it.
When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?
The more I study science the more I believe in God.
Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do you will be certain to find something you have never seen before.
Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world, individuals are so nicely adjusted to a system, and systems to one another and to a whole, that, by stepping aside for a moment, a man exposes himself to a fearful risk of losing his place forever.
You must try to observe yourself more and more objectively, to look at everything in yourself as though another person.
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad.
