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Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

What do you despise? By this are you truly known.

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian.

Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.

There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors.

The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalent.

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone, there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.

Something cannot emerge from nothing.

Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.

Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us?

He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.

Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.

Truth suffers from too much analysis.

One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is.