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"Bodies do not produce sensations, but complexes of elements (complexes of sensations) make up bodies."
Sensations
"The ego is as little absolutely permanent as are bodies."
Ego
"Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience."
Experience
"When I recall today my early youth, I should take the boy that I then was, with the exception of a few individual features, for a different person, were it not for the existence of the chain of memories."
Existence
"Similarly, many a young man, hearing for the first time of the refraction of stellar light, has thought that doubt was cast on the whole of astronomy, whereas nothing is required but an easily effected and unimportant correction to put everything right again."
Time
"My table is now brightly, now dimly lighted. Its temperature varies. It may receive an ink stain. One of its legs may be broken. It may be repaired, polished, and replaced part by part. But, for me, it remains the table at which I daily write."
May
"A colour is a physical object as soon as we consider its dependence, for instance, upon its luminous source, upon other colours, upon temperatures, upon spaces, and so forth."
Dependency
"Ordinarily pleasure and pain are regarded as different from sensations."
Pain
"The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately returns to the general point of view of mankind."
Fact
"Man is pre-eminently endowed with the power of voluntarily and consciously determining his own point of view."
Power
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"What spreads the stench of bad conduct? It is the egoism and other 'flaws'."
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Personal Development
"The ego dies and the ego lives, but people say that 'I died'. That which takes birth and dies is the ego, and the Soul is in the same place (is always intact). Even Pudgal (the atoms that were charged; which are being discharged in the form of mind, body, speech) is in the same place. The issue is only of the ego in the middle."
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Personal Development
"Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries."
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Personal Development
"Accept the ego of extraordinary people as they have achieved something but don't accept the ego of ordinary people."
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Personal Development
"The ego resists change. False pride is an impediment to change."
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Personal Development
"It sounds as if you'd like to be God."
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Personal Development
"It is quite awful how some people are constantly saying that they are superior to others, but deep down they know that they are suffering from a lot of insecurities."
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Personal Development
"There was only one thing about his own appearance which really pleased Hercule Poirot, and that was the profusion of his moustaches, and the way they responded to grooming and treatment and trimming. They were magnificent. He knew of nobody else who had any moustache half as good."
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Personal Development
"We measure everything by ourselves with almost a necessary conceit."
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Personal Development
"An obese ego is just about the heaviest thing you'll ever carry. So maybe you should stop feeding it."
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Personal Development
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