 He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing. |
| The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian. |
| Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty. |
| The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand. |
| The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalent. |
| Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain. |
| To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be. |
| Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us? |
| Kindness is the beginning of cruelty. |
| Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery. |
| The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger. |
| How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him. |
| To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror. |
| Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future. |
| Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker. |
| What do you despise? By this are you truly known. |
| Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken. |
| It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich. |
| When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual. |
| There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors. |
