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"To know oneself is to disbelieve utopia."
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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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"Jews do not have to be Christians. Christianity is an offshoot of Judaism, but too utopian, too hopeful, too unrealistic a turn."
"The Lord God, the creator of Judaism and the God of Judaism and Christianity, empowered our minds and gave us the ability to question."
"Practically every movie that shows the pope or even a bishop as a character, and in much of western literature of the last 300 or 400 years, these are portrayed as awful figures."
"In most of history, societies have not been free. It's a very rare society that is free. The default condition of human societies is tyranny."
"Individual freedom is a Jewish idea, but it's one of the functions of Christianity to make this idea universal."
"Our Founders always wondered about how long it would last. The price of liberty is everlasting vigilance. You've got to be on your guard every minute or you will lose it."
"You're a sovereign as a citizen. If you're not involved in your government, you're not doing your job. In the long run that's very bad for the Republic."
"Christians must be Jews. The truth of what we believe depends on the truth of Judaism, depends on the first covenant."
"Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work."
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