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Weather forecast for tonight: dark.
 
All outward forms of change brought about by wars, revolutions, reformations, laws and ideologies have failed completely to change the basic nature of man and therefore of society.
 
We are confronted with problems of organized complexity... organization runs through all levels of reality and science.
 
Poverty is the mother of crime.
 
You cannot give to people what they are incapable of receiving.
 
He who learns and learns and yet does not know what he knows, is one who plows and plows yet never sows.
 
One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland --and no other.
 
The existentialist declares willingly that man is anguish.
 
Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night.
 
Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them.
 
We have Christians against Muslims against Jews, and no matter how liberal your theology, merely identifying yourself as a Christian or a Jew lends tacit validity to this status quo. People have morally identified with a subset of humanity rather than with humanity as a whole.
 
if you want to increase your chances of avoiding stress-related diseases, make sure you don’t inadvertently allow yourself to be born poor.
 
Would there be this eternal seeking if the found existed?
 
What we need now is the description of the “describer” or, in other words, we need a theory of the observer.
 
Etc.: A sign to make others believe that you know more than you actually do.
 
If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.
 
Can we think about love ? When you love, is thought functioning ? Love and thought are not in opposition; do not let us divide them as opposites. When one loves, is there a sense of seperateness, of bringing people together, or disbanding them, pushing them away ? Surely that state of love can be experienced only when the process of thought is not functioning—which does not mean that one must become crazy, unbalanced. On the contrary. It requires the highest form of thought to go beyond.
 
Perhaps what is inexpressible (what I find mysterious and am not able to express) is the background against which whatever I could express has its meaning.
 
Society exists for the benefit of its members - not the members for the benefit of society.
 
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
 
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