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There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience, or none at all.
 
I suspect music is auditory cheesecake, an exquisite confection crafted to tickle the sensitive spots of... our mental faculties.
 
The map is not the territory … The only usefulness of a map depends on similarity of structure between the empirical world and the map...
 
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
 
Truth is not something that can be followed; it has to be discovered. You cannot find truth through any book or through any accumulation of experience.
 
Concepts like those of organization, wholeness, directiveness, teleology, control, self-regulation, differentiation, and the like are alien to conventional science. However, they pop up everywhere in the biological, behavioral, and social sciences and are, in fact, indispensable for dealing with living organisms or social groups. Thus, a basic problem posed to modem science is a general theory of organization. General Systems Theory is, in principle, capable of giving exact definitions for such concepts.
 
Peace can come only when there is love.
 
The goal is not to be better than the other man, but your previous self.
 
Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.
 
We can analyze the melody, but not in independent parts. That would be destrucion of the melody.
 
The perpetrators of the Inquisition - the torturers, informers, and those who commanded their actions - were ecclesiastics of one rank or another. They were men of God - popes, bishops, friars, and priests.
 
CONSERVATIVE: A statesman who is enamoured of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others.
 
The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
 
In truth you owe naught to any man. You owe all to all men.
 
Intelligence is essentially the ability to solve the problems of present behavior in terms of its possible future consequences as implicated on the basis of past experience-the ability, that is, to solve the problems of present behavior in the light of, or by reference to, both the past and the future; it involves both memory and foresight.
 
We are, in the twenty-first century, as we’ve always been: great apes hunting connection and status inside shared hallucinations.
 
Script analysis is then the answer to the problem of human destiny, and tells us (alas!) that our fates are predetermined for the most part, and that free will in this respect is for most people an illusion.
 
Do not live for others any more than you would expect others to live for you.
 
I do not believe that women are better than men. We have not wrecked railroads, nor corrupted legislature, nor done many unholy things that men have done; but then we must remember that we have not had the chance.
 
Just as we cannot think of spatial objects at all apart from space, or temporal objects apart from time, so we cannot think of any object apart from the possibility of its connexion with other things.
 
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