It's very important for men to look downward, to the next generation.

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It's very hard to know what wisdom is.

It's very hard to know what wisdom is.

You don't attack the grunts of Vietnam; you blame the theory behind the war. Nobody...

You don't attack the grunts of Vietnam; you blame the theory behind the war. Nobody...

I see happiness as a by-product. I don't think you can pursue happiness. I think...

I see happiness as a by-product. I don't think you can pursue happiness. I think...

I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a...

I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a...

Sooner or later something seems to call us onto a particular path... this is what...

Sooner or later something seems to call us onto a particular path... this is what...

The culture is going into a psychological depression. We are concerned about our place in...

The culture is going into a psychological depression. We are concerned about our place in...

I think we're miserable partly because we have only one god, and that's economics.

I think we're miserable partly because we have only one god, and that's economics.

As Plotinus tells us, we elected the body, the parents, the place, and the circumstances...

As Plotinus tells us, we elected the body, the parents, the place, and the circumstances...

If you are still being hurt by an event that happened to you at twelve,...

If you are still being hurt by an event that happened to you at twelve,...

You don't know what you're going to get into when you follow your bliss.

You don't know what you're going to get into when you follow your bliss.

We have to give value to authority. We have to give value to office, being...

We have to give value to authority. We have to give value to office, being...

Too many people have been analyzing their pasts, their childhoods, their memories, their parents, and...

Too many people have been analyzing their pasts, their childhoods, their memories, their parents, and...

We need to work on the world so it will not be so oppressive.

We need to work on the world so it will not be so oppressive.

I don't think anything changes until ideas change. The usual American viewpoint is to believe...

I don't think anything changes until ideas change. The usual American viewpoint is to believe...

I know my own deficiencies, one of which is that I had lived away from...

I know my own deficiencies, one of which is that I had lived away from...

In the history of the treatment of depression, there was the dunking stool, purging of...

In the history of the treatment of depression, there was the dunking stool, purging of...

Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being. I think it's...

Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being. I think it's...

Depression opens the door to beauty of some kind.

Depression opens the door to beauty of some kind.

We approach people the same way we approach our cars. We take the poor kid...

We approach people the same way we approach our cars. We take the poor kid...

We're an air bag society that wants guarantees on everything that we buy. We want...

We're an air bag society that wants guarantees on everything that we buy. We want...