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Alan Watts

You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.

Rabindranath Tagore

The small wisdom is like water in a glass, clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable.

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Oscar Wilde

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.

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Rabindranath Tagore

We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.

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Aeschylus

There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.

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Rabindranath Tagore

We cross infinity with every step; we meet eternity in every step.

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Rabindranath Tagore

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.

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Adam Smith

Wonder and not any expectation of advantage from its discoveries, is the first principle which prompts mankind to the study of Philosophy, of that science which pretends to lay open the concealed connections that unite the various appearances of nature.

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Adam Smith

We are but one of the multitude, in no respect better than any other in it.

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Rabindranath Tagore

Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.

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Albert Schweitzer

I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.

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Albert Schweitzer

By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.

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Albert Schweitzer

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.

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Albert Schweitzer

If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.

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Albert Schweitzer

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it.

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Albert Schweitzer

Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.

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Albert Schweitzer

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will – his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

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Albert Schweitzer

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

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