| The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. -- William James |
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James, WilliamEra:
1842 |
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| A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it. -- Alexandre (père) Dumas |
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Dumas, Alexandre (père)Era:
1802 |
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| Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing. -- William Shakespeare |
| Author:
Shakespeare, WilliamEra:
1564 |
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| Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel. -- John Ruskin |
| Author:
Ruskin, JohnEra:
1819 |
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| When to the Permanent is sacrificed the Mutable, the prize is thine: the drop returneth whence it came. The Open Path leads to the changeless change - Non-being, the glorious state of Absoluteness, the Bliss past human thought. -- H. P. Blavatsky |
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Blavatsky, H. P.Era:
1831 |
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| There are five things which no one is able to accomplish in this world: first, to cease growing old when he is growing old; second, to cease being sick; third, to cease dying; fourth, to deny dissolution when there is dissolution; fifth, to deny non-being. -- Buddha |
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BuddhaEra:
-568 |
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| This is the truth: As from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again. -- Upanishads |
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UpanishadsEra:
-800 |
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| The Universe should be deemed an immense being, always living, always moved and always moving in an eternal activity inherent in itself, and which, subordinate to no foreign cause, is communicated to all its parts, connects them together, and makes the world of things a complete and perfect whole. -- Albert Pike |
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Pike, AlbertEra:
1809 |
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| I have never seen an ass who talked like a human being, but I have met many human beings who talked like asses. -- Heinrich Heine |
| Author:
Heine, HeinrichEra:
1797 |
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| The secret of being a bore is to tell everything. -- Voltaire |
| Author:
VoltaireEra:
1694 |
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| The appearance and disappearance of the Universe are pictured as an outbreathing and inbreathing of "the Great Breath," which is eternal, and which, being Motion, is one of the three aspects of the Absolute - Abstract Space and Duration being the other two. -- H. P. Blavatsky |
| Author:
Blavatsky, H. P.Era:
1831 |
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| Strive with thy thoughts unclean before they overpower thee. Use them as they will thee, for if thou sparest them and they take root and grow, know well, these thoughts will overpower and kill thee. Beware! Suffer not their shadow to approach. For it will grow, increase in size and power, and then this thing of darkness will absorb thy being before thou hast well realized the black foul monster's presence. -- H. P. Blavatsky |
| Author:
Blavatsky, H. P.Era:
1831 |
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| What is thought? It is not Matter, nor Spirit. It is not a Thing; but a Power and Force. I make upon a paper certain conventional marks, that represent that Thought. There is no Power or Virtue in the marks I write, but only in the Thought which they tell to others. I die, but the Thought still lives. It is a Power. The fact that Thought continues to exist an instant, after it makes its appearance in the soul, proves it immortal: for there is nothing conceivable that can destroy it. The spoken words, being mere sounds, may vanish into thin air, and the written ones,mere marks, be burned, erased, destroyed: but the THOUGHT itself lives still, and must live on forever. -- Albert Pike |
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Pike, AlbertEra:
1809 |
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| Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them. -- François Duc De La Rochefoucauld |
| Author:
La Rochefoucauld, FrançoisEra:
1613 |
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| Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species. -- Thomas Carlyle |
| Author:
Carlyle, ThomasEra:
1795 |
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| Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing. -- Francis Bacon |
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Bacon, FrancisEra:
1561 |
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| Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being. -- Sigmund Freud |
| Author:
Freud, SigmundEra:
1856 |
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| All souls must undergo transmigration and the souls of men revolve like a stone which is thrown from a sling, so many turns before the final release...Only those who have not completed their perfection must suffer the wheel of rebirth by being reborn into another human body. -- Zohar |
| Author:
ZoharEra:
120 |
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| Clay is molded to form a cup, But it is on its non-being that the utility of the cup depends. Doors and windows are cut out to make a room, But it is on its non-being that the utility of the room depends. Therefore turn being into advantage, and turn non-being into utility. -- Lao-Tzu |
| Author:
Lao-TzuEra:
-604 |
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| A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude. Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole and against a wide sky. -- Rainer Maria Rilke |
| Author:
Rilke, Rainer MariaEra:
1875 |
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| Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men. -- Johann Von Schiller |
| Author:
Schiller, Johann VonEra:
1759 |
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| The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth; The Named is the mother of all things. Therefore let there always be non-being so we may see their subtlety, And let there always be being so we may see their outcome. The two are the same, But after they are produced, they have different names. They both may be called deep and profound. Deeper and more profound, The door of all subtleties! -- Lao-Tzu |
| Author:
Lao-TzuEra:
-604 |
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| Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven. -- I Ching |
| Author:
Ching, IEra:
-1150 |
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| The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters. -- Walter Lippmann |
| Author:
Lippmann, WalterEra:
1889 |
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| Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man... -- The Dhammapada |
| Author:
Dhammapada, TheEra:
-300 |
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| Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death. -- The Dhammapada |
| Author:
Dhammapada, TheEra:
-300 |
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| He that visits the sick in hopes of a legacy, but is never so friendly in all other cases, I look upon him as being no better than a raven that watches a weak sheep only to peck out its eyes. -- Seneca |
| Author:
SenecaEra:
-4 |
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| Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy. -- The Dhammapada |
| Author:
Dhammapada, TheEra:
-300 |
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| He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye. -- Bhagavad Gita |
| Author:
Gita, BhagavadEra:
-400 |
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| Every human being is the author of his own health or disease. -- Sivananda |
| Author:
SivanandaEra:
1887 |
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| God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is. -- Giordano Bruno |
| Author:
Bruno, GiordanoEra:
1548 |
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| What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little. -- Leszczynski Stanislaus |
| Author:
Stanislaus, LeszczynskiEra:
1677 |
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| Be humble as the blade of grass that is being trodden underneath the feet. The little ant tastes joyously the sweetness of honey and sugar. The mighty elephant trembles in pain under the agony of sharp goad. -- Sivananda |
| Author:
SivanandaEra:
1887 |
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| We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from...Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements. -- Lucretius |
| Author:
LucretiusEra:
-94 |
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| Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together. -- Daniel Webster |
| Author:
Webster, DanielEra:
1782 |
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| The atom, being for all practical purposes the stable unit of the physical plane, is a constantly changing vortex of reactions. -- Kabbalah |
| Author:
KabbalahEra:
-1200 |
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