Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.
Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.
It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.
Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.
People ignore the thing they have the most power over. I know so many people who will go to a protest and do something big on an issue. But they won’t deal with that issue in their home.
We must be our own before we can be another’s.
Recognize the ego for what it is: a collective dysfunction, the insanity of the human mind.
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
When it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.
Play the game for more than you can afford to lose… only then will you learn the game.
We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.
The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.
An honest man is always a child.
Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.
The affairs of the world will go on forever. Do not delay the practice of meditation.
Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.
We all have our challenges, issues, things that we’re working through and insecurity is there because nobody is perfect no matter who you are. It’s that imperfection that makes you so dope.
A toddling little girl is a center of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.
That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.
The public do not know enough to be experts, but know enough to decide between them.
