Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
Franklin D. RooseveltRead
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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
The danger of psychedelic drugs, the danger of mind-opening, the danger of consciousness expansion, the danger of inner discovery is a danger to the establishment.
Human knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life. Humanity has every reason to place the proclaimers of high moral standards and values above the discoverers of objective truth.
No man chooses evil because it's evil. He only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.
Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.
Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.
And yet to every bad there is a worse.
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
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