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"A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it."
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"A poor but confident man is as hard to find as a rich but shy man."
"We are not as important to most people as we are to ourselves. As a matter of fact, we are-to most people-not important at all."
"Instead of breaking or cherry-picking the rules, many just follow the inner rules, which have been instilled during their lifetime and have subtly permeated their thinking. They value rules, as it offers the ravishment of a securing, ceremonial rhythm in life and it prevents them from breaking free from their cocoon, all the more because freedom can be so scaring and exhausting. ['When forgetting the rules of the game']"
"It is a great mystery to me how the problems of others seem like simple arithmetic while my own appear as complicated as a calculus equation."
"Even if we have bad feelings about our past and it causes a sense of alienation, it belongs to our history. Its benchmarks are stored in the granary of our mind and crucial evaluations for the future cannot be made without consulting the archive of our memory. ['Not without the past']"
"How then did it work out, this? How did one judge people, think of them? How did one add up this and that and conclude that it was liking one felt, or disliking?"
"I feel like when I give trust that isn't earned, I receive hurt that isn't deserved."
"Boredom is a symptom of a conditioned and closed mind. If you are bored, you're doing yourself a tremendous disservice. Open your mind, break-free from your conditioned routine, and reignite the flames of excitement and discovery."
"Blame is the creed of the disempowered."
"Some people feed your ego, but starve your soul."
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"It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly."
"Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias."
"So long as there is death there will be sorrow, and so long as there is sorrow it can be no part of the duty of human beings to increase its amount, in spite of the fact that a few rare spirits know how to transmute it."
"Grammar and ordinary language are bad guides to metaphysics. A great book might be written showing the influence of syntax on philosophy."
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts."
"Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires."
"The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours."
"It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this."
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