These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness.

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It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which...

It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which...

When you are guilty, it is not your sins you hate but yourself.

When you are guilty, it is not your sins you hate but yourself.

These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without...

These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without...

Obedience keeps the rules. Love knows when to break them.

Obedience keeps the rules. Love knows when to break them.

There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head,...

There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head,...

Problems only exist in the human mind.

Problems only exist in the human mind.

People mistakenly assume that their thinking is done by their head; it is actually done...

People mistakenly assume that their thinking is done by their head; it is actually done...

In the landscape of time, there are few locations less comfortable than that of one...

In the landscape of time, there are few locations less comfortable than that of one...

I hears that theres a group of South American Indians that worship the number zero

I hears that theres a group of South American Indians that worship the number zero

There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real...

There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real...

The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of...

The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of...

Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has...

Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has...

Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.

Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.

Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is...

Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is...

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into...

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into...

It's interesting to think that my ancestors used to live in the trees, like apes,...

It's interesting to think that my ancestors used to live in the trees, like apes,...

He who limps is still walking.

He who limps is still walking.

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will...

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will...

If you think you can do a thing, or think you can't do a thing;...

If you think you can do a thing, or think you can't do a thing;...

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be noblest

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be noblest