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Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think. Arthur Schopenhauer

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The world sometimes feels like an insane asylum. You can decide whether you want to be an inmate or pick up your visitor's badge. You can be in the world but not engage in the melodrama of it; you can become a spiritual being having a human experience thoroughly and fully. Deepak Chopra

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Only the educated are free. Epictetus

Motivational Free Only Educated

Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language. Ludwig Wittgenstein

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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate. Bertrand Russell

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Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire. Confucius

You Yourself Others Impose Desire

The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express. Francis Bacon

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No one can live without relationship. You may withdraw into the mountains, become a monk, a sannyasi, wander off into the desert by yourself, but you are related. You cannot escape from that absolute fact. You cannot exist in isolation. Jiddu Krishnamurti

Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form. Karl Marx

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The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain. Karl Marx

Suffering Pain Physical Mental Physical Pain Only Antidote

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot. Plato

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Victory usually goes to the army who has better trained officers and men. Sun Tzu

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There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face. Bernard Williams

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We never look deeply into the quality of a tree; we never really touch it, feel its solidity, its rough bark, and hear the sound that is part of the tree. Not the sound of wind through the leaves, not the breeze of a morning that flutters the leaves, but its own sound, the sound of the trunk and the silent sound of the roots. Jiddu Krishnamurti

Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence. Jiddu Krishnamurti

The discipline of desire is the background of character. John Locke

Character Discipline Background Desire

A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. John Stuart Mill

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Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks. Karl Marx

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Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy. Lao Tzu

Inspirational Health Confidence Joy Contentment Possession Greatest Friend Treasure

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