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Being happy is of the utmost importance. Success in anything is through happiness. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Happiness Success Happy Through Importance Being Anything Being Happy Utmost Utmost Importance
Behaviour arises from the level of one's consciousness. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Arises Behaviour Level Consciousness
What we have done, the result of that comes to us whenever it comes, either today, tomorrow, hundred years later, hundred lives later, whatever, whatever. And so, it's our own karma. That is why that philosophy in every religion: Killing is sin. Killing is sin in every religion. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Today Religion Karma Result Tomorrow Whatever Own Every Our Hundred Later Hundred Years Philosophy Sin Years Done Whenever Either Us Why Lives
Anticipate charity by preventing poverty. Maimonides
Charity Poverty Preventing Anticipate
Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, the same thing in its essence as the production of corpses in the gas chambers and the extermination camps, the same thing as blockades and the reduction of countries to famine, the same thing as the manufacture of hydrogen bombs. Martin Heidegger
Food Agriculture Same Thing Corpses Food Industry Hydrogen Countries Industry Reduction Camps Same Essence Famine Production Manufacture Now Chambers Thing Bombs Gas Gas Chambers Extermination
We name time when we say: every thing has its time. This means: everything which actually is, every being comes and goes at the right time and remains for a time during the time allotted to it. Every thing has its time. Martin Heidegger
Time Every Everything Right Time Say Remains Name Goes Being Which Means Actually Right Thing
Time is not a thing, thus nothing which is, and yet it remains constant in its passing away without being something temporal like the beings in time. Martin Heidegger
Time Nothing Constant Temporal Something Remains Thus Like Without Passing Being Which Beings Away Thing
He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment. Meister Eckhart
Needs Pure Detachment Would One Thing Would-Be He Who Serene Thing
The outward man is the swinging door; the inner man is the still hinge. Meister Eckhart
Man Outward Hinge Still Door Swinging Inner
The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great. Meister Eckhart
Work Great Will Puny Never Outward Inward
There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination. Mencius
Delight Sincerity Self-Examination Greater Than Conscious
He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man. Mencius
Great Man Great Man Small Self He Smaller Greater Becomes His Who
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories. Michel de Montaigne
Failure Some Triumphant More Than Victories Defeats
Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know. Michel de Montaigne
Nothing Firmly Know Least Believed
A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them. Michel de Montaigne
Water Matters Bent Oar See Merely Looks How Straight Them Things
We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom. Michel de Montaigne
Wisdom Knowledge Wise Men Other We Cannot Cannot
Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition. Michel de Montaigne
Man Every Bears Condition Human Human Condition Stamp Whole Every Man
It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption. Montesquieu
Age Corruption People Young Those Degenerate Sunk Spoiled Till Mature Young People
Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain. Nagarjuna
Life You Anger Enemy Will Own Spend Foes Although Exhaust Real Real Enemy Quell May Your Slain
Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves. Nagarjuna
Nature Nothing Mutual Dependence Being Themselves Derive Things
My own view is that being a vegetarian or vegan is not an end in itself, but a means towards reducing both human and animal suffering and leaving a habitable planet to future generations. Peter Singer
Future Suffering Animal Vegan Own Future Generations My Own Both Habitable Vegetarian Generations Towards Reducing Leaving End Itself Human Being Planet Means View
The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth. Pierre Bayle
Truth Acceptance Assurance General Opinion Antiquity
If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Be Happy Happy Will First Our Our Lives Ourselves Must Follow Remain Tendency Impetus Primarily New Look React Least Causes Line Provide Either Against Us Activities Lives Resistance External
To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less. Plato
Good Nature Man Will Evil Human Nature Evils No-One He Greater Human Prefer Might Choose Less Compelled Two
The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine. Plato
Soul Eyes Vision Unable Divine Endure Multitudes
Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good. Plato
Good Say Over Repeat Review They Say Twice
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