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When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.

You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been.

True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.

The pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Parmenides taught that the only things that are real are things which never change... and the pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Heraclitus taught that everything changes. If you superimpose their two views, you get this result: Nothing is real.

One of the greatest tragedies in life is to lose your own sense of self and accept the version of you that is expected by everyone else.

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

A preoccupation with the next world clearly shows an inability to cope credibly with this one.

Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle.

A painting is more than the sum of its parts,' he would tell me, and then go on to explain how the cow by itself is just a cow, and the meadow by itself is just grass and flowers, and the sun peeking through the trees is just a beam of light, but put them all together and you've got magic.

If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.

It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.

Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We've been using them not because we needed them but because we had them.

Each star is a mirror reflecting the truth inside you.

There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.

To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment's torture.

No man was ever wise by chance

Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.