"The edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."
"The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self."
"What cannot be communicated to the mother cannot be communicated to the self."
"The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love."
"The tiniest event can tear a hole in the grey curtain of reaction. From a situation in which nothing can happen, suddenly anything is possible again."
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
"Weird behavior is natural in smart children, like curiosity is to a kitten."
"Emancipatory politics must always destroy the appearance of a natural order, must reveal what is presented as necessary and inevitable to be a mere contingency."
"Victory belongs to the most persevering."
"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
"The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemy's."
"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be."
"Imagination rules the world."
"I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you."
"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
"Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide."
"The reason I talk to myself is because I'm the only one whose answers I accept."
"There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed."
"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living."
"If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself."
"In the long run the sword is always beaten by the mind."
"A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not."
"Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools."
"Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously."
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
"In time, however, I came to understand that one can adore and desire that which is forever beyond reach. This might, in fact, be the hardest truth of human existence."
"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
"We begin to reason from sensible objects, and definition is the end and epilogue of science. It is not the beginning of our knowing, but only of our teaching."
"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."
"I think; therefore, I feel. I feel; therefore, I need."
"If understanding followed no rule at all, there would be no good in the understanding nor in the matter understood, and to remain in ignorance would be the greatest good."
"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."
"Mistakes are made on two counts: an argument is either based on error or incorrectly developed."
"It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not."
"That arithmetic is the basest of all mental activities is proved by the fact that it is the only one that can be accomplished by a machine."
"As you were, I was. As I am, you will be."
"People far too easily neglect or abuse us, as soon as we become intimate with them. To live pleasantly, one must almost always remain a stranger in the crowd."
"No thought, no reflection, no analysis, no cultivation, no intention; let it settle itself."
"Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth."
"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self."
"Iteration becomes intelligence."
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