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We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.

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Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
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Persistent Philosophy Problem Question Suspect Wrong
The present is always changing the past.
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Change Inspirational One Liner Past Present
The menu is not the meal.
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Food Meal Menu One Liner Philosophy
Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or expectations or advice, however widely circulated.
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Advice Existence Expectation Guidance Influence Light Love Principle Room Rule Truth
If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. If this world is a vicious trap, so is its accuser, and the pot is calling the kettle black.
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Black Statement Universe World
If you cannot trust yourself, you cannot even trust your mistrust of yourself – so that without this underlying trust in the whole system of nature you are simply paralyzed
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Nature System Trust Yourself
I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.
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In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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Forget Look Reality Universe World
I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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Happen Maternity Sarcastic
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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Deep Fun God Man Serious Suffering
People can’t be talked out of illusions.
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Illusion Judgment One Liner People Talk
Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.
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Difficult Fascinate Frustration Individual Intelligence Oneself Wisdom
Hospitals should be arranged in such a way as to make being sick an interesting experience. One learns a great deal sometimes from being sick.
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Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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Act Faith One Liner Trust Unknown
It’s better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing, than a long life spent in a miserable way.
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The relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.
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We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.

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We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.

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