Siddhartha Gautama (India from c.560 to c.480 BC.), The Buddha
"All that we are, are the result of what we have thought."
"Arrogance leads to failure."
"Birth gives rise to old age and death."
"Child and adult, wise and fool, all are they death inferior; that is what they have in common."
"Do not look for a sanctuary in anyone except your self."
"Drillers shape holes, bow makers arrows, carpenters shapes wood and the wise shape him self. "
"Help others, but when you do that, do not forget yourself."
"It is impossible for one who is caught in a swamp to help another one caught."
"Learn this from water: loud splashes the brook but the oceans depth are calm."
"Never is the effect of an action lost."
"Praise won through quarrel is worthless."
"Pull up the delusion by the root by stop thinking in terms of "I"."
"The body can be destroyed, but the effect of a kind action can remain."
"The man that conquers him self is superior to the one who conquers a thousand men in a battle."
"The only thing permanent is change."
"The wise do not build any hope for the future and do not regret anything in the past."
"To live a single day and hear a good teaching is better than to live a hundred years without knowing such teaching."
"Transitory is everything composite."
"We limit our world with "the thought"."
"Whatever you expect, it will be different."
"Win over anger with love, over ill will with good will; win over greed with generosity, over the liar with truth."
"You will never hear the truth from people who call each other fools."
"If you relax the string too loosely, it will not sing and if you pull it too tight, it will break."
Carl Gustav Jung
"You always become the thing you fight the most." - "Diagnosing the
Dictators." In Hearst's International Cosmopolitan, January 1939 pp.22
"A man's hatred is always concentrated upon that which makes him conscious of his bad qualities."
John Locke
"Every man has a property in his own person.
This nobody has a right to, but himself."
"New opinions are always suspected, and usually
opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common."
Mark Twain
"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society."
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
"The first human being who hurled an insult
instead of a stone was the founder of civilization."
Alfred Adler (1870-1937), Psychologist
"It is easier to fight for one's principles than live up to them."
John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Lord Acton (1834-1902)
"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power
corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men... There is no
worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it."
Alistair Crowley
"Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law"
Arthur C. Clarke:
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.."
Voltaire
"I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend to the death, your right to say it."
"It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue."
Napoleon
"A throne is only a bench covered with velvet."
"History is a set of lies agreed upon."
"You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach them your art of war."
"The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man."
"The best way to keep one's word is not to give it."
"The most dangerous moment comes with victory."
"There is no place in a fanatic's head where reason can enter."
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
"So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence."
"The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who
forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others."
"Most people would sooner die than think; in fact they do so."
Burroughs, William S. (1914-1997)
"The underground press serves as the only effective counter to a growing power, and more sophisticated
techniques used by establishment mass media to falsify, misrepresent, misquote, rule out of consideration as a priori ridiculous, or simply
ignore and blot out of existence: data, books, discoveries that they consider prejudicial to establishment interest..."
Erich Fromm
"There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue."
"To spare oneself from grief at all costs can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness."
Bismarck
"Never believe in anything until it has been officially denied."
"A generation that has taken a beating is always followed by a generation that deals one."
"Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable . . . the art of the next best."
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"These people abstain, it is true: but the
bitch Sensuality glares enviously out of all they do."
"In christianity neither morality nor religion
come into contact with reality at any point."
"You who hate the jews so, why did you adopt
their religion?" [Nietzsche, addressing anti-semitic christians]
"Belief means not wanting to know what is true."
[Nietzche, The Anti-Christ, 1889]
"Have you noticed there are no interesting
people in heaven? --Just a hint to the girls as to where they can find their
salvation." [Nietzche, The Will to Power]
"Do you believe then that the sciences
would ever have arisen and become great if there had not beforehand been
magicians, alchemists, astrologers, and wizards who thirsted and hungered
after abscondite and forbidden powers?"
"He who lives by fighting with an enemy has
an interest in the preservation of the enemy's life."
"There are no facts, only interpretations."
"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."
"Every philosophy is the philosophy of some
stage of life."
Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527)
"One change leaves the way open for the introduction of others."
"Among other evils which being unarmed brings you, it causes you to be despised."
[The Prince]
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