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"A man who loves others based solely on how they make him feel, or what they do for him, is really not loving others at all - but loving only himself."
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"It is humanly impossible to be selfless. As a matter of fact, human beings are inherently selfish."
"Inquisitor Lorsen's thin lip curled. 'There is truly nothing in you of what separates man from animal, is there? You are bereft of conscience. An utter absence of morality. You have no principle beyond the selfish.'Cosca's face hardened as he leaned forwards. 'Perhaps when you have faced as many disappointments and suffered as many betrayals as I, you will see it - there is no principle beyond the selfish, Inquisitor, and men are animals. Conscience is a burden we choose to bear. Morality is the lie we tell ourselves to make its bearing easier. There have been many times in my life when I have wished it was not so. But it is so."
"Start thinking of your guilt as being selfish, because guilt blocks opportunities from arriving for those you care about and for you."
"One's Use of Life', if turns into worldly selfishness is called adharma (irreligion), and if it turns into spiritual selfishness (towards true self) is called dharma (religion)."
"A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small parcel."
"Man serves the interests of no creature except himself."
"Selfishness is never so exquisitely selfish as when it is on its knees. ... Self turns what would otherwise be a pure and powerful prayer into a weak and ineffective one."
"One is not necessarily made self-centered because he is foolish, but one is very often made foolish because he is self-centered."
"Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself."
"A man who loves others based solely on how they make him feel, or what they do for him, is really not loving others at all - but loving only himself."
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"What further helps to reveal reality is when our personal thinking ceases to take reality for granted."
"My heart goes out to some of those rather hostile yet highly intelligent individuals who may see problems really because they have solutions. That hostility is learned in defense; not offense. An often stubborn and prideful world, in its self-destructive, temporary bliss of ignorance, may be violently resistant to the watchful mind."
"I often find that people confuse inner peace with some sense of insensibility whenever something goes wrong. In such cases inner peace is a permit for destruction: The unyielding optimist will pretend that the forest is not burning either because he is too lazy or too afraid to go and put the fire out."
"Christianity is at its purest a philosophy about a person, Jesus Christ, and at its dirtiest a philosophy about requirements and law."
"Christ commands his people to love their enemies, because if not, that would rule out pretty much the entire world."
"I am not here to merely argue about the perplexities regarding theism or philosophy, but to be a light to the world and to reach out to those who long to be a part of that light."
"All men are born firstly with the instinct to protect themselves. But few grow to really love themselves, and even fewer learn to love their neighbor as themselves."
"It's much easier on the emotions when one sees life as an experiment rather than a struggle for popularity."
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