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Each part of the brain knows a little bit about what’s happening in some other [parts], but there’s no single place that knows everything. ... It’s like a big corporation.
 
The true hero is one who conquers his own anger and hatred.
 
Yes, metaphor. That's how the whole fabric of mental interconnections holds together. Metaphor is right at the bottom of being alive.
 
Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.
 
The goal is not to be better than the other man, but your previous self.
 
As I said, relationship has true significance only when it is a process of self-revelation, when it is revealing oneself in the very action of relationship. But most of us do not want to be revealed in relationship.
 
As people age, they confuse changes in themselves with changes in the world, and changes in the world with moral decline—the illusion of the good old days.
 
If an opinion can eventually go to the determination of a practical belief, it, in so far, becomes itself a practical belief; and every proposition that is not pure metaphysical jargon and chatter must have some possible bearing upon practice.
 
I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
 
More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other's well-being, is source of happiness.
 
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
 
Suffering is above, not below. And everyone thinks that suffering is below. And everyone wants to rise.
 
Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open.
 
There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.
 
That which does not destroy us makes us stronger.
 
The certainty of death and the uncertainty of the hour of death is a source of grief throughout our life.
 
Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.
 
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
 
The earth is my body, my head is in the stars. (From the film "Harold and Maude")
 
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
 
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