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Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have read more
Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.
When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward -- or go back. He who read more
When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward -- or go back. He who now talks about the "freedom of the press" goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.
We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are.
We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are.
After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, read more
After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn’t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked—as I am surprisingly often—why I bother to get up in the mornings.
Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.
Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.
Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive read more
Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure.
In the light of his vision he has found his freedom: his thoughts are peace, his words are peace and read more
In the light of his vision he has found his freedom: his thoughts are peace, his words are peace and his work is peace.
He who dares not (reason), is a slave.
He who dares not (reason), is a slave.
In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. - Adages.
In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. - Adages.
