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People prefer bad company to solitude and anything to one's own company.
 
Doubt is an uneasy and dissatisfied state from which we struggle to free ourselves and pass into the state of belief; while the latter is a calm and satisfactory state which we do not wish to avoid, or to change to a belief in anything else.
 
What is the proof that I know something? Most certainly not my saying I know it.
 
We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all.
 
Physiologically, it doesn't come cheap being a bastard 24 hours a day.
 
A man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.
 
There is nothing I can't live without. I learned this attitude when I was a child.
 
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
 
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
 
To be objective is to treat others as you treat an object, a corpse to behave with them like an undertaker.
 
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.
 
When everyone sorrows, no one hears the sorrows.
 
Here is a neuron that fires when I reach and grab something, but it also fires when I watch Joe reaching and grabbing something. ... It's as though this neuron is adopting the other person's point of view.
 
Just as there is no such thing as Christian physics or Muslim Algebra, we will see tht there is no such thing as Christian or Muslim morality.
 
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
 
We are free to burn the Qur’an or any other book, and to criticize Muhammad or any other human being. Let no one forget it.
 
Philosophy is an unusually stubborn attempt to think clearly.
 
Everyone tells you what's good for you. they don't want you to find your own answers. they want you to believe theirs.
 
Never do today that which will become someone else's responsibility tomorrow.
 
World belongs to humanity, not this leader, that leader or that king or prince or religious leader. World belongs to humanity.
 
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