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Let God's grace be the mosque, and devotion the prayer mat. Let the Quran be the good conduct. Guru Nanak

God Good Prayer Grace Mosque Devotion Mat Conduct

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious. Heraclitus

Better Harmony Hidden Obvious Than

What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man. Herbert Spencer

Man Selfish Law Beast Wild Wild Beast Cage

Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society. Herbert Spencer

Society Benefit Members Exists

The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality. Herbert Spencer

Health Few Duty Physical Seem Morality Such A Thing Conscious Thing Preservation

The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason. Immanuel Kant

Good Good And Evil Evil Those Latter Object Objects Only Also Practical Principle According Former Meant Reason Therefore Shunned Necessarily Desired

Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands. Immanuel Kant

Religion Our Recognition Divine Commands Duties

Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible. Isaiah Berlin

Positive Ignorance Injustice Goals Collective Men Poverty Revolution Fighting Live Evils Only Variety Vast Individual Seldom Times Cured Reform May Predictable Them Incompatible Slavery

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Living Difficult Think Too Earning Only Nobly Thinks

The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Election Free Think Members Only Parliament English

Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong. Jean-Paul Sartre

Politics You Science Others Wrong Demonstrate Right

A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less. Jean de la Bruyere

Great Small Eminence Great Person Greater Makes Person Less Position

The question is not, 'Can they reason?' nor, 'Can they talk?' but rather, 'Can they suffer?' Jeremy Bentham

Rather Talk Nor Question Reason Suffer

It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people which is the measure of right and wrong. Jeremy Bentham

Good People Wrong Greatest Greatest Number Which Measure Right Right And Wrong Number

Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government. Jeremy Bentham

Government Conspiracy Ought Secrecy System Never Instrument Being Regular

Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love. Can one love and yet not possess? You will find the true answer not in escape, ideals, beliefs but through the understanding of the causes of dependence and possessiveness. Jiddu Krishnamurti

Life Love Relationship You Will Made Understanding Possess Hideous Possessive Find Through True Ideals Without Answer Causes Escape Personal Dependence Cannot Agonizing Beliefs

Meditation is a state of mind which looks at everything with complete attention, totally, not just parts of it. And no one can teach you how to be attentive. If any system teaches you how to be attentive, then you are attentive to the system, and that is not attention. Jiddu Krishnamurti

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