A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel.
If you believe certain words, you believe their hidden arguments. When you believe something is right or wrong, true or false, you believe the assumptions in the words which express the arguments. Such assumptions are often full of holes, but remain most precious to the convinced.
There's a lesson in every temptation.
Love is a very ancient force, which served its purpose in its day but no longer is essential for the survival of the species.
Once human beings realize something can be done, they're not satisfied until they've done it.
When a creature has developed into one thing, he will choose death rather than change into his opposite.
Often I must speak otherwise than I think. This is called diplomacy.
Peace for any prolonged period of time is impossible. Humans have a natural thirst for chaos and war is the most readily available form of chaos.
To stay awake all night adds a day to your life.
If you need something to worship, then worship life - all life, every last crawling bit of it! We're all in this beauty together!
One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is.
A person cries out in life because it's lonely and because life's been broken off from whatever created it. But no matter how much you hate life, you love it too. It's like a caldron boiling with everything you have to have, but very painful to the lips.
What is important for a leader is that which makes him a leader. It is the needs of his people.
The mind goes on working no matter how we try to hold it back.
the sleeper must awaken.
We faced it and did not resist. The storm passed through us and around us. It's gone, but we remain.
The hearts of all men dwell in the same wilderness.
Balance is what distinguishs a people from a mob.
Anything less than abject submission has to have some attack in it.
When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual.
Fear is the penalty of consciousness forced to stare at itself.
Paired opposites define your longings and those longings imprison you.
Most of us choose our companions and surroundings to reflect ourselves.
Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.
Emotions are the curse of logic.
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