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"You are surrounded by ignorance, savagery and fanaticism. You live in a society where everyone thinks he/she knows about everything in the whole universe. If you find yourself among those intellectual idiots, then being good and humble may give rise to doubts in your mind about your own ideas. So, you must first learn to distinguish between real and shallow intellect. Then, as a self- preservation tactic, you need to let your pretence of arrogance grow as big as a Dinosaur, so that the fake intellectuals start to realize their true inferiority in front of you."
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"Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible; reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless."

"A great deal of thought is only a substitute for the thoughts that the individual would really find useful at the time."

"I've been told, by various people, that I think too much. This is incorrect! The truth is that I deliberately challenge people to think more than they would like to."

"Thought fitted thought; opinion met opinion: we coincided, in short, perfectly."

"Gods, I love it when you talk mathy to me."

"The struggle for a free intelligence has always been a struggle between the ironic and the literal mind."

"While having one's assertions challenged might be bad for an unintelligent man's ego, it sure is good for his intellect."

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"Are you a kind of person who likes to keep all your emotions hidden from the people around you! Do you prefer restraining your feelings a little too much! In that case, you must know that too much emotional suppression can have catastrophic impact over your body."

"Tolstoy was a Caucasian, Gandhi was an Asian, and Martin Luther King Jr. was a Negro, yet all of their hearts were inspired by the one idea of nonviolent resistance. King received it from Gandhi, Gandhi received it from Tolstoy, and Tolstoy received it from Christ."

"Regardless of all our pretenses, deep within, we are still unconsciously the same old cave-people."

"The perception of reality is something that is constructed by the human mind based on its own needs and knacks."

"Strength and weakness are both mental constructs. Now you choose, what's preferable for you."

"Don't judge people by their religious, cultural, or professional background. Judge if you must, by their behavior with other people."

"All of his (Nanak's) progressive thinking attained absolution at the age of 30, when he had the transcendental experience, quite similar to that of Mohammed and Joan of Arc, that was about to rock the very foundation of orthodox Hinduism in India."
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