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You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
 
The essential ingredient of politics is timing.
 
One of the surprising discoveries of modern psychology is how easy it is to be ignorant of your own ignorance.
 
Interestingly enough, not all feelings result from the body's reaction to external stimuli. Sometimes changes are purely simulated in the brain maps.
 
Time is just memory mixed in with Desire.
 
The fact that we cannot write down all the digits of pi is not a human shortcoming, as mathematicians sometimes think.
 
Being someone is being one alone. Being someone is loneliness.
 
An open heart is an open mind.
 
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
 
PAIN: An uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in something that is being done to the body, or may be purely mental, caused by the good fortune of another.
 
The recognition of the difference between appearance and reality is a human discovery.
 
The philosopher is not a citizen of any community of ideas, that is what makes him a philosopher.
 
Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.
 
I want to be just a pure spiritual leader.
 
If words are not things, or maps are not the actual territory, then, obviously, the only possible link between the objective world and the linguistic world is found in structure, and structure alone.
 
Love me when I least deserve it, because it's when I need it most.
 
There is only one journey. Going inside yourself.
 
Weather forecast for tonight: dark.
 
Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
 
Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules.
 
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