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An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.
If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
A poll conducted by The Washington Post found that 80 percent of Katrina's survivors claim that the event only strengthened their faith in God.
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.
The real, then, is that which, sooner or later, information and reasoning would finally result in, and which is therefore independent of the vagaries of me and you. Thus, the very origin of the conception of reality shows that this conception essentially involves the notion of a COMMUNITY, without definite limits, and capable of a definite increase of knowledge.
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Ever notice that anyone going slower than you is an idiot, but anyone going faster is a maniac?
Anything that contradicts experience and logic should be abandoned.
Big Brother isn’t watching. He’s singing and dancing. He’s pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother’s busy holding your attention every moment you’re awake. He’s making sure you’re always distracted. He’s making sure you’re fully absorbed.
The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.
Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
The important fact of the present time is not the struggle between capitalism and socialism but the struggle between industrial civilization and humanity.
We must continually remind ourselves that there is a difference between what is natural and what is actually good for us.
Never do today that which will become someone else's responsibility tomorrow.
There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.
Hard sciences are successful because they deal with the soft problems; soft sciences are struggling because they deal with the hard problems.
I shall argue that the problem of grace is fundamentally a problem of integration and what is to be integrated is the diverse parts of the mind - especially those multiple levels of which one extreme is called 'consciousness' and the other the 'unconscious'.
Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
120 million of us place the big bang 2,500 years after the Babylonians and Sumerians learned to brew beer.
I do not envy God.
It is one of the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all there is to perceive. 
We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.
The characteristic of life does not lie in a distinctiveness of single life processes. [Lebensvorgänge], but rather in a certain order among all the processes.
The only profitable conversations are with enthusiasts who have ceased being so, with the ex-naïve. Calmed down at last, they have taken, willy-nilly, the decisive step toward knowledge, that impersonal version of disappointment.
You know, if we understand one question rightly, all questions are answered. But we don't know how to ask the right question. To ask the right question demands a great deal of intelligence and sensitivity. Here is a question, a fundamental question: is life a torture? It is, as it is; and man has lived in this torture centuries upon centuries, from ancient history to the present day, in agony, in despair, in sorrow; and he doesn't find a way out of it. Therefore he invents gods, churches, all the rituals, and all that nonsense, or he escapes in different ways. What we are trying to do, during all these discussions and talks here, is to see if we cannot radically bring about a transformation of the mind, not accept things as they are, nor revolt against them. Revolt doesn't answer a thing. You must understand it, go into it, examine it, give your heart and your mind, with everything that you have, to find out a way of living differently. That depends on you, and not on someone else, because in this there is no teacher, no pupil; there is no leader; there is no guru; there is no Master, no Saviour. You yourself are the teacher and the pupil; you are the Master; you are the guru; you are the leader; you are everything. And to understand is to transform what is.
My life is like an air-traffic controller's: moments of boredom broken up by moments of sheer terror.
The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.
The successful person places more attention on doing the right thing rather than doing things right.
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
The characteristic of the organism is first that it is more than the sum of its parts and second that the single processes are ordered for the maintenance of the whole.
Well, it's either kiss me or kill me, that's how I see it.
Without technology humanity has no future, but we have to be careful that we don’t become so mechanised that we lose our human feelings.
We human beings are social beings. We come into the world as the result of others’ actions. We survive here in dependence on others. Whether we like it or not, there is hardly a moment of our lives when we do not benefit from others’ activities. For this reason, it is hardly surprising that most of our happiness arises in the context of our relationships with others.
If you can stay in love for more than two years, you're on something.
Interestingly enough, not all feelings result from the body's reaction to external stimuli. Sometimes changes are purely simulated in the brain maps.
The truth is, that common-sense, or thought as it first emerges above the level of the narrowly practical, is deeply imbued with that bad logical quality to which the epithet metaphysical is commonly applied; and nothing can clear it up but a severe course of logic.
The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest.
Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.
I'm very interested in language because it reflects our obsessions and ways of conceptualising the world.
Consistency is the playground of dull minds.
I would ask something more of this world if it had something more.
My favorite animal is steak.
Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.
What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!
I write because it’s a sort of meditation, and my only superficial peace. Writing takes me to the point where I can harmonize with what is disturbing.
If you want a real meaning, and you can’t find one, it’s all very well to make one up — but I don’t see how that solves any problems. ... Unless you say how God works, saying that God exists doesn’t explain anything.
Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.
And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night.
He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.
Fear and trust cannot go together.
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
Temperamentally anxious people can have a hard time staying motivated, period, because their intense focus on their worries distracts them from their goals.
Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.
If you can cultivate the right attitude, your enemies are your best spiritual teachers because their presence provides you with the opportunity to enhance and develop tolerance, patience and understanding.
No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.
Once there was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time is called the Dark Ages.
If I were to give a prize for the single best idea anybody ever had, I'd give it to Darwin for the idea of natural selection - ahead of Newton, ahead of Einstein - because his idea unites the two most disparate features of our universe: the world of purposeless, meaningless matter and motion, particles jostling on the one side, and the world of meaning and purpose, design on the other.
I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
We have names for people who have many beliefs for which there is no rational justification. When their beliefs are extremely common we call them ‘religious’; otherwise, they are likely to be called ‘mad’, ‘psychotic’ or ‘delusional’...
As our own peace of mind grows, so the atmosphere around us becomes more peaceful.
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues. 
All that we have invented, the symbols in the church, the rituals, they are all put there by thought. Thought has invented these things. Invented the savior. Invented the temples of India and the contents of the temples. Thought has invented all these things called sacred. You cannot deny that. So thought in itself is not sacred. And when thought invents God, God is not sacred. So what is sacred? That can only be understood or happen when there is complete freedom, from fear, from sorrow, and when there is this sense of love and compassion with it's own intelligence. Then when the mind is utterly still, that which is sacred can take place.
Once, the governing human metaphor was pastoral or agricultural, and it clarified, and so preserved in human care, the natural cycles of birth, growth, death, and decay. But modern humanity's governing metaphor is that of the machine. Having placed ourselves in charge of creation, we began to mechanize both the creation itself and our conception of it. We began to see the whole creation merely as raw material, to be transformed by machines into a manufactured Paradise.
Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open.
Who do you turn to when the only person who can stop your tears, is the one that's causing them?
Wholeness [Ganzheit], Gestalt, is the primary attribute of life.
Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.
When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways–either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength.
There is no false sensation.
Just as blueprints don't necessarily specify blue buildings, selfish genes don't necessarily specify selfish organisms. As we shall see, sometimes the most selfish thing a gene can do is build a selfless brain. Genes are a play within a play, not the interior monologue of the players.
In a deep river there is richness and many fish can live; but the shallow pool is soon dried up by the strong sun, and nothing remains except mud and dirt. For most of us, love is an extraordinarily difficult thing to understand because our lives are very shallow.
Suffering is above, not below. And everyone thinks that suffering is below. And everyone wants to rise.
The description is not the described; I can describe the mountain, but the description is not the mountain, and if you are caught up in the description, as most people are, then you will never see the mountain.
A sane society is that which corresponds to the needs of man — not necessarily to what he feels to be his needs, because even the most pathological aims can be felt subjectively as that which the person wants most; but to what his needs are objectively, as they can be ascertained by the study of man. It is our first task then, to ascertain what is the nature of man, and what are the needs which stem from this nature.
Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
There are many matters and many circumstances in which consciousness is undesirable and silence is golden, so that secrecy can be used as a marker to tell us that we are approaching the holy.
Never argue with idiots... They bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.
There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
Believe nothing you hear, and only half of what you see.
Even though its common knowledge these days, it never ceases to amaze me that all the richness of our mental life - all our feelings, our emotions, our thoughts, our ambitions, our love life, our religious sentiments and even what each of us regards us his own intimate private self - is simply the activity of these little specks of jelly in your head, in your brain. There is nothing else.
Every new concept first comes to the mind in a judgment.
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
As an atheist, I am angry that we live in a society in which the plain truth cannot be spoken without offending 90% of the population.
PEACE: In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.
I know of no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too desirous of evidence in support of their core beliefs.
Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.
Nessuno vi può dare la libertà. Nessuno vi può dare l'uguaglianza o la giustizia. Se siete uomini, prendetevela.
Even the most vaunted experts are susceptible to wishful thinking and can be blinded to a truth by a conviction that is supported more by emotional attachment than reason.
Ultimately, fear of failure generates a vicious circle that creates what is most feared. To break this cycle, you need to make peace with failure. It isn't enough to merely tolerate it; you need to appreciate the failure and use it ...
Don't leave home without your left hemisphere.
You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven.
It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.
My neighbor's poverty makes me feel poor; my own does not.
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