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Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that's very important for good health.
 
The world is independent of my will.
 
Whenever you fall, pick something up.
 
If faith cannot be reconciled with rational thinking, it has to be eliminated as an anachronistic remnant of earlier stages of culture and replaced by science dealing with facts and theories which are intelligible and can be validated.
 
Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open.
 
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.
 
Humor is just another defense against the universe.
 
A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
 
Nobody is always stupid, but everyone is stupid sometimes.
 
The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end - you don't come to an achievement, you don't come to a conclusion. It is an endless river.
 
I say that the world is a league of scoundrels against the men of good will, and of the petty against the generous.
 
To convince someone of the truth, it is not enough to state it, but rather one must find the path from error to truth.
 
People easily understand that ‘primitives’ cement their social order by believing in ghosts and spirits, and gathering each full moon to dance together around the campfire. What we fail to appreciate is that our modern institutions function on exactly the same basis.
 
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
 
To be loved by whom you love is a great luck; to be loved by whom you don't love is an annoyance; not to be loved by whom you love is a misfortune; not to love and not to be loved, a risky situation.
 
Democracy is an imperfect way of steering between the violence of anarchy and the violence of tyranny, with the least violence you can get away with.
 
If every man could act as he chose, the whole of history would be a tissue of disconnected accidents.
 
If you had love in your heart, you would show respect to those who have nothing and also to those who have everything; you would neither be afraid of those who have, nor disregard those who have not. Respect in the hope of reward is the outcome of fear. In love there is no fear.
 
In societies no less than individuals, acknowledging our limitations may ultimately be more humane than denying them.
 
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
 
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