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"We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves."
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"For many years, I searched for this connection outside of myself but always to no avail. It was only when I turned inward did I find this power."
"Are you like, a crazy person?I'm quite sure they will say so."
"Your inner world creates your outer world."
"We make such messes in this life, both accidently and on purpose. But wiping the surface clean doesn't really make anything any neater. It just masks what is below. It's only when you really dig down deep, go underground, that you can see who you really are."
"Accept who are you and your uniqueness. Define your choices and believes."
"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."
"However fast you run, or however skilfully, you can't run away from your own feet."
"Learn to experience yourself without judging yourself."
"As long as one finds faults with the world, he won't be able to find anything about the Soul (Self). He who sees his own faults is the Soul (Self) himself!"
"III. I have often wondered how it should come to pass, that every man loving himself best, should more regard other men's opinions concerning himself than his own. For if any God or grave master standing by, should command any of us to think nothing by himself but what he should presently speak out; no man were able to endure it, though but for one day. Thus do we fear more what our neighbours will think of us, than what we ourselves."
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"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."
"It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block."
"Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite."
"There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite."
"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."
"Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!"
"Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?"
"Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them."
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