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Only a person who has passed through the gate of humility can ascend to the heights of the spirit. Rudolf Steiner
Heights Humility Spirit Only Through Passed Person Ascend Who Gate
If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it. Socrates
Man Wealth He Until Employs Known Proud How Praised His Should
The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom. Sun Tzu
Service Good Thought Country Kingdom Fearing General Only Advances Retreats Protect Without His Fame Sovereign Disgrace Who Whose Jewel
He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious. Sun Tzu
Leadership Enemy Wait Will Lies He Prudent Victorious Who
How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god. Alan Watts
God Eyes Experience Ears Musical Possible Fabulous Nerves Instruments How Enchanted Brain Itself Than Being Anything Sensitive Less Jewels
No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people. Albert Camus
People Cause Innocent Innocent People Deaths Justifies
A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad. Albert Camus
Good Freedom Will Free Free Press Press Bad Never Most Course Without Anything Certainly
Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy. Aristotle
Jealousy Good Good Things Envy Men Other Neighbour Both Through Allow Himself Makes Does His Get While Them Reasonable Base Things Belongs
The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. Aristotle
Other Virtues Those Most Greatest Which Persons Useful
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well. Aristotle
Life Art Living Gave Honored Those More Only Well Educate Than Children Them Produce Who
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. Arthur Schopenhauer
Man World Vision Own Field Every Takes Limits His Every Man
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free. Baruch Spinoza
Learning Human Being Free Understanding Attain Highest Because Understand Human Being Activity
The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history. Bertrand Russell
Great History Men Type Megalomaniac Feared Great Men Seeks Charming Rather Fact He Powerful Wishes Most Narcissist Than Loved Many Differs Lunatics Belong
If you want to do really important things in life and big things in life, you can't do anything by yourself. And your best teams are your friends and your siblings. Deepak Chopra
Life Best You Yourself Important Big Important Things Friends Want Big Things Anything Really Your Teams Things Sibling
I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage. Friedrich Nietzsche
Will Power Pain Torture Advantage Knows How How Much Endures Turn Much Assess Resistance
Much learning does not teach understanding. Heraclitus
Learning Understanding Does Much Teach
There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk. Jean-Paul Sartre
Day Starting Over One Day Given Only Dawn Taken Over Over It Always Left Dusk Us Away Starting
We are second-hand people. We have lived on what we have been told, either guided by our inclinations, our tendencies, or compelled to accept by circumstances and environment. We are the result of all kinds of influences, and there is nothing new in us, nothing that we have discovered for ourselves: nothing original, pristine, clear. Jiddu Krishnamurti
People Result Nothing Second-Hand Our Guided Circumstances Ourselves Kinds Tendencies Clear Environment New Accept Pristine Been Discovered Influences Either Us Nothing New Original Lived Compelled
If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation. Jiddu Krishnamurti
You Change Transformation Without Understand Begin Trying Then
The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. John Stuart Mill
Good Freedom Long Own Others Our Way Only Pursuing Attempt Name Obtain Efforts Which Deprive Deserves
Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are. Jose Ortega y Gasset
Me You Brainy Will Pay Pay Attention Tell Attention Who
The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own. Lao Tzu
Wise Man Wise Man Own Others More Gives Lay He Does His Up Treasures
Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods. Plato
Love Good Wise Love Is Joy Amazement Wonder Gods
I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. Plutarch
Friendship Change Better Changes Shadow Nod Does Friend Much Who Need
Who am I? Not the body, because it is decaying; not the mind, because the brain will decay with the body; not the personality, nor the emotions, for these also will vanish with death. Ramana Maharshi
Death Emotions Personality Mind Will Vanish Also Because Am Nor Brain Decay Decaying Body Who Who Am I
Let him that would move the world first move himself. Socrates
World First Would Him Himself Move
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