~ Dalai Lama. Nobel Lecture
Responsibility does not only lie with the leaders of our countries or with those who have been appointed or elected to do a particular job. It lies with each one of us individually. Peace, for example, starts with each one of us. When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us. When our community is in a state of peace, it can share that peace with neighbouring communities, and so on.

~ Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan
Whosoever looketh into himself and considereth what he doth when he does think, opine, reason, hope, fear, etc., and upon what grounds; he shall thereby read and know what are the thoughts and passions of all other men upon the like occasions. I say the similitude of passions, which are the same in all men, — desire, fear, hope, etc.; not the similitude of the objects of the passions, which are the things desired, feared, hoped, etc.: for these the constitution individual, and particular education, do so vary, and they are so easy to be kept from our knowledge, that the characters of man’s heart, blotted and confounded as they are with dissembling, lying, counterfeiting, and, erroneous doctrines, are legible only to him that searcheth hearts [compare this with apperception]. And though by men’s actions we do discover their design sometimes; yet to do it without comparing them with our own, and distinguishing all circumstances by which the case may come to be altered, is to decipher without a key, and be for the most part deceived, by too much trust or by too much diffidence, as he that reads is himself a good or evil man.

~ Krishnamurti, Jiddu. You Are the World
To understand truth one must have a very sharp, precise, clear mind; not a cunning mind, but a mind that is capable of looking without any distortion, a mind innocent and vulnerable. Only such a mind can see what truth is. Nor can a mind that is filled with knowledge perceive what truth is; only a mind that is completely capable of learning can do that. Learning is not the accumulation of knowledge. Learning is movement from moment to moment.

Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim. Philosophical and Theological Writings
It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man.

~ Mead, Margaret.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

~ Thoreau, Henry David. Walden
Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant? We should live in all the ages of the world in an hour; nay, in all the worlds of the ages. History, Poetry, Mythology! — I know of no reading of another’s experience so startling and informing as this would be.

~ Anonymous
Life is what you do when nothing is on television.

~ Havel, Vaclav. First President of the Czech Republic
Today we find ourselves in a paradoxical situation. We enjoy all the achievements of modern civilization that have made our physical existence on this Earth easier in so many important ways. Yet, we do not know exactly what to do with ourselves, where to turn. In short, we live in postmodern world, where everything is possible and almost nothing is certain. The abyss between the rational and the spiritual, the external and the internal, the objective and the subjective, the technical and the moral, the universal and the unique, constantly grow deeper.

~ Plato. The Republic
When modes of music change, [so too] do the fundamental laws of the State always change with them.

~ Santayana, George. The Life of Reason
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

~ Wilde, Oscar. “The Decay of Lying”
Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life.

~ Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations
How it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others.

~ Brhadaranyaka Upanisad
We are what our deep, driving desire is. As our deep, driving desire is, so is our will. As our will is, so is our deed. As our deed is, so is our destiny.

~ Dhammapada
Go beyond your likes and dislikes and all fetters will fall away. [. . .] Him I call a [holy person] who has trained his mind to be still and reached the supreme goal. [. . .] Possessing nothing, desiring nothing for his own pleasure or his own profit, he has becomea force for good, working for the freedom for all [by being] . . . fearless, heroic, [and] unshakeable.

~ Emerson, Ralph Waldo.
The Conduct of Life and Society and Solitude
The pest of society is egotists.

~ Nietzsche, The Will to Power
The methods of truth were not invented from motives of truth, but from motives of power, of wanting to be superior.

~ Sagan, Carl. The Demon-Haunted World
Finding the occasional straw of truth awash in a great ocean of confusion and bamboozle requires intelligence, vigilance, dedication and courage. But if we don't practice these tough habits of thought, we cannot hope to solve the truly serious problems that face us – and we risk becoming a nation of suckers, up for grabs by the next charlatan who comes along.

~ Spinoza, Benedict. The Ethics
The activities of the mind arise solely from adequate ideas; the passive states of the mind depend solely on inadequate ideas.

~ Tao Te Ching
Send your desires away and you will see the mystery. Be filled with desire and you will see only the manifestation

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