favourite quotes

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If you try to forcibly push a square into a circle, the square loses its corners. But if you try to forcibly push a circle into a square, the circle just disappears.

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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

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Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech

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The Spartans do not ask how many are the enemy but where are they

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Those who do not find time for exercise will have to find time for illness

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Those who pretend to be fools, will soon find themselves surrounded by real fools who believe they are in good company

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He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you

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Feelings, by themselves, do not create problems. It is rather the tendency to interpret and analyze them. When, out of habit, you believe those interpretations, it is there that the suffering begins

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Big concerns grow from small concerns. You plant them, water them with tears, fertilize them with unconcern. If you ignore them, they grow.

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When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal and unique.

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What are the greatest problems in your field and why arent you working on one of them?

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Be curious. Read widely. Try new things. I think a lot of what people call intelligence boils down to curiosity

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Every block of stone has a statue inside it, and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it

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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery

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A leader isn't someone who tells you what to do and you obey because he's in a position of power over you.
A leader is someone who talks and then you realize, you believe them, and you want that thing to happen as well.

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It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit

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While a judge should be benevolent in purpose; his awards should cause the criminal to suffer, else there is no punishment - and pain is the basic mechanism built into us by millions of years of evolution which safeguards us by warning when something threatens our survival. Why should society refuse to use such a highly perfected survival mechanism?

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Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem–in my opinion–to characterize our age.

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A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand

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Hollywood is the entertainment division of the CIA

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Sometimes you need to be a lion to be the lamb you really are

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There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man

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The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule

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Where men are forbidden to honor God they honor millionaires, athletes, or film stars instead; even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For Spiritual Nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison

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we shape machines and the machines shape us