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Idries Shah

"Whoever has not first dug a well, should not steal a minaret."

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"Whoever has not first dug a well, should not steal a minaret."

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"Morality exists in the neurons as a natural sensation. Religion only tries to codify it."

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"Ethics are the things that say, 'Don't stick your finger in the socket.' The world says, 'It's okay because we've shut off the electricity.' And at the point that we've chosen to listen to the world and ignore our ethics, we say, 'I'm having a really hard time getting back up."

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"People shouldn't have to earn kindness. They should have to earn cruelty."

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"It is better to have little and be right than to have much and be wrong."

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"The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts."

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"I've a regard for law, although I do not always agree with it. Without law, man becomes a beast."

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"To deny people of their human rights is to challenge their very humanity."

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"Nothing gets a bigger laugh than when you refer to things like ethics or human rights."

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"You are still adrift while you still think that a means is an end."
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"Even if false gold makes a man happy:At the mint it will be identified."
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"The sufis believe that they can experience something more complete."
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"To 'see both sides' of a problem is the surest way to prevent its complete solution. Because there are always more than two sides."
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"Do not try to be humble: learn humility."
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"Sufism is that which succeeds in bringing to man the High Knowledge."
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"From a personal experience and the examination of literature, I feel that we cannot take for granted that a dialogue, without information and perhaps without understanding, is possible between any individuals or groups on all levels. So the prerequisite is information."
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"Be kind to the hawk and harm the sparrow."
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"Patience is the food of understanding."
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"What you are pleased to call Sufism is merely the record of past method."
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