This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple the philosophy is kindness.
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.
In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.
It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.
Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.
We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.
Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
Being is the great explainer.
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.
In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.
Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.
Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.
A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.
It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
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