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"An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft."
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"Materialistic perception of life makes us spiritually shortsighted."
"Beauty is only there when you have the ability to see and appreciate it."
"Close your eyes to see the world with your imaginative mind."
"Light wears out the eyes but does not wear out the soul."
"What other people think is important to them. What you think has great importance to you."
"Maya (deceit) means that one cannot see the nature of things as they are but sees them in a different form."
"We each project to others a reflection of the world which includes our choices of perception."
"If your life is founded on what you can see then your success will be insignificant and very brief."
"We do not actually know other nations, we only know our judgements."
"The essential Not-self could be perceived very clearly in things and in livingcreatures on the hither side of good and evil. In human beings it was visible only when they were inrepose, their minds untroubled, their bodies motionless."
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"So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong."
"The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards."
"The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it."
"The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything."
"It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations."
"A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life."
"No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation."
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