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"A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately, another comes. In the interval which separates two desires, a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate"
Swami Sivananda, Philosopher
"To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult"
Plutarch, Philosopher
"Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist"
Plutarch, Philosopher
"What worries you, masters you"
John Locke, Philosopher
"I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world"
Diogenes of Sinope, Philosopher
"The more we have, the less we own"
Meister Eckhart, Philosopher
"The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge"
Meister Eckhart, Philosopher
"Only the hand that erases can write the true thing"
Meister Eckhart, Philosopher
"The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better"
John Dewey, Philosopher
"Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself"
John Dewey, Philosopher
"Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep"
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosopher
"The human body is the best picture of the human soul"
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosopher
"A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring"
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosopher
"A jury is a group of twelve people of average ignorance"
Herbert Spencer, Philosopher
"There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others"
George Matthew Adams, Philosopher
"There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause!"
George Matthew Adams, Philosopher
"Custom is the great guide to human life"
David Hume, Philosopher
"Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one"
Martin Heidegger, Philosopher
"The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone"
Thomas Hobbes, Philosopher
"By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich"
Democritus, Philosopher
"If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others"
Xun Kuang, Philosopher
"Life is a succession of crises and moments when we have to rediscover who we are and what we really want"
Jean Vanier, Philosopher
"Community begins in mystery and ends in administration. Leaders move away from people and into paper"
Jean Vanier, Philosopher
"The fish trap exists because of the fish. Once you've gotten the fish, you can forget the trap. The rabbit snare exists because of the rabbit. Once you've gotten the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words exist because of meaning. Once you've gotten the meaning, you can forget the words"
Zhuang Zi, Philosopher
"To silence criticism is to silence freedom"
Sidney Hook, Philosopher
"The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there"
Robert M. Pirsig, Philosopher
"The Chinese people, too, went through all kinds of vicissitudes in their religious development"
Hu Shih, Philosopher
"Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence"
Friedrich Engels, Philosopher
"The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups"
Henry Hazlitt, Philosopher
"If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace"
Gaston Bachelard, Philosopher
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