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Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
 
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
 
What would our world be like if we ceased to worry about 'right' and 'wrong,' or 'good' and 'evil,' and simply acted so as to maximize well-being, our own and that of others? Would we lose anything important?
 
If you can change your mind, you can change your life.
 
The miserable have no other medicine
But only hope.
 
Great art allows you to transcend your mortal frame and to reach for the stars. I think great science does the same thing.
 
He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.
 
Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his desires along with desire's rewards. Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age.
 
If someone is too tired to give you a smile, leave one of your own, because no one needs a smile as much as those who have none to give.
 
Learning is acquired by reading books; but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various editions of them.
 
The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.
 
Pain is a relatively objective, physical phenomenon; suffering is our psychological resistance to what happens. Events may create physical pain, but they do not in themselves create suffering. Resistance creates suffering. Stress happens when your mind resists what is... The only problem in your life is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds.
 
Love is the answer, but while you are waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions.
 
My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.
 
It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.
 
A child shows his toy, a man hides his.
 
Invention, using the term most broadly, and imitation, are the two legs, so to call them, on which the human race historically has walked.
 
I think governments can't do much.
 
I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.
 
Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.
 
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