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"We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves."
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"You have to know yourself enough to be able to choose friends that you will be compatible with."
"However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results."
"No, I'm afraid your overconfidence, as with most young men who dream of becoming successful, can quite quickly become the Achilles' heel of your continued mediocrity."
"Ego is this this higher conscious concept that we have of ourselves and we feel that we must live by it with a closed mind. We can be Self Aware of this concept or purely just blinded. I think the answer to this problem is being Self Aware and changing our current perception for the better."
"I have been an author for 20 years and an ass for 55."
"The people around you are mirrors, I think. You see yourself reflected in their eyes. If the mirror is true, and smooth, you see your true self. That's how you learn who you are."
"Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!"
"Perhaps the most liberating moment in my life was when I realized that my self-loathing was not a product of my inadequacy but, rather, a product of my thoughts."
"Seeing everything that goes on in your daily life, your daily activities - when you pick up a pen, when you talk, when you go out for a drive or when you are walking alone in the woods - can you with one breath, with one look, know yourself very simply as you are? When you know yourself as you are, then you understand the whole structure of man's endeavour, his deceptions, his hypocrisies, his search. To do this you must be tremendously honest with yourself throughout your being."
"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."
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"It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block."
"In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters."
"Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!"
"There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite."
"Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?"
"Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite."
"The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public."
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