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  • A man who says, 'I want to change, tell me how to', seems very earnest, very serious, but he is not. He wants an authority whom he hopes will bring about order in himself. But can authority ever bring about inward order? Order imposed from without must always breed disorder.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes , Men Quotes , Order Quotes
  • The animal tends to eat with his stomach, and the man with his brain. When the animal's stomach is full, he stops eating, but the man is never sure when to stop. When he has eaten as much as his belly can take, he still feels empty, he still feels an urge for further gratification.
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    Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Animal Quotes , Men Quotes
  • He did not know that the new life would not be given him for nothing, that he would have to pay dearly for it, that it would cost him great striving, great suffering. But that is the beginning of a new story -- the story of the gradual renewal of a man, the story of his gradual regeneration, of his passing from one world into another, of his initiation into a new unknown life. That might be the subject of a new story, but our present story is ended.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Men Quotes , Suffering Quotes
  • Property should be in a certain sense common, but, as a general rule, private; for, when every one has a distinct interest, men will not complain of one another, and they will make more progress, because every one will be attending to his own business.
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    Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Men Quotes , Progress Quotes
  • Great statesmen seem to direct and rule by a sort of power to put themselves in the place of the nation over which they are set, and may thus be said to possess the souls of poets at the same time they display the coarser sense and the more vulgar sagacity of practical men of business.
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    Tags : Woodrow Wilson Quotes , Men Quotes , Soul Quotes
  • He who lives to see two or three generations is like a man who sits some time in the conjurer's booth at a fair, and witnesses the performance twice or thrice in succession. The tricks were meant to be seen only once; and when they are no longer a novelty and cease to deceive, their effect is gone.
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    Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Men Quotes , Two Quotes