Most lives are a flight from selfhood. Most prefer the truths of the stable. You stick your head into the stanchions and munch contentedly until you die. Others use you for their purposes. Not once do you look outside the stable to lift your head and be your own creature.
Highly organized research is guaranteed to produce nothing new.
Mankind has only one science… its the science of discontent.
Most deadly errors arise from obsolete assumptions.
It is so shocking to find out how many people do not believe that they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.
Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.
The greatest and most important problems of life cannot be solved. They can only be outgrown.
There is not secret to balance. You just have to feel the waves.
A man is a fool not to put everything he has, at any given moment, into what he is creating.
Too much knowledge never makes for simple decisions.
The surest way to keep a secret is to make people believe they already know the answer.
The mind can go either direction under stress—toward positive or toward negative: on or off. Think of it as a spectrum whose extremes are unconsciousness at the negative end and hyperconsciousness at the positive end. The way the mind will lean under stress is strongly influenced by training.
Clinging to any form of conservatism can be dangerous. Become too conservative and you are unprepared for surprises. You cannot depend on luck. Logic is blind and often knows only its own past. Logic is good for playing chess but is often too slow for the needs of survival.
There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.
What you cannot control, you must accept.
If all those around you believe some particular thing, you will soon be tempted to share in that belief.
Every judgment teeters on the brink of error. To claim absolute knowledge is to become monstrous. Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.
Beware! The mind of the believer stagnates. It fails to grow outward into an unlimited, infinite universe.
The dice cannot read their own spots.
Justice belongs to those who claim it, but let the claimant beware lest he create new injustice by his claim and thus set the bloody pendulum of revenge into its inexorable motion
Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.
Face your fears or they will climb over your back.
To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe. You cannot hire a wise man or any other intellect to solve it for you. There's no writ of inquest or calling of witness to provide answers.
Those who would repeat the past must control the teaching of history.
The universe does not work by our rules
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