When we consider reality itself we quickly become aware of its infinite complexity, and we realize that our habitual perception of it is often inadequate. If this were not so, the concept of deception would be meaningless.
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Ethics for the New Millenium
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Published by Riverhead Books
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, 1999
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To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.
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To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.
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When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal. When you meet someone not as good as you are, look within and examine your own self.
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We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born - the beneficiary inasmuch as language gives access to the accumulated records of other people's experience, the victim in so far as it confirms him in the belief that reduced awareness is the only awareness and as it bedevils his sense of reality, so that he is all too apt to take his concepts for data, his words for actual things.
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We don't accomplish anything in this world alone ... and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of individual threads from one to another that creates something.
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In science, every set of conclusions is just a status report. They say, “this is how far we’ve gotten in terms of figuring out what’s real.”
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An unrevengeful spirit, never given to rate itself too high;- such be
the signs, O Indian Prince! of him whose feet are set on that fair
path which leads to heavenly birth!
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The Song of Celestial
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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
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It doesn't matter how big a ranch you own or how many cows you brand, the size of your funeral is still gonna depend on the weather.
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If only it were all so simple, if only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being, and who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?
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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
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If one man says to thee, ''Thou art a donkey',' pay no heed. If two speak thus, purchase a saddle.
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Talmud
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Contribution #2627
One can only be humbled by the richness of the animal and plant life on this place we call Earth – the diversity of life in the oceans – so evident here on the Great Barrier Reef. Hundreds of soft and hard corals, fish species and marine animals. I want to do my part to secure this wonderful world for future generations.
All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice.
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The true test of the American ideal is whether we’re able to recognize our failings and then rise together to meet the challenges of our time. Whether we allow ourselves to be shaped by events and history, or whether we act to shape them. Whether chance of birth or circumstance decides life’s big winners and losers, or whether we build a community where, at the very least, everyone has a chance to work hard, get ahead, and reach their dreams.
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We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.
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It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know of wonder and humility.
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The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.
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He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.
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When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities.
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We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.
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No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
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The more a man knows, the more willing he is to learn--the less a man knows, the more positive he is that he knows everything.
With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the greatest charm of all power is modesty.
And when we would make much of that which cannot matter much to thee, forgive us. --a frequent part of the prayer that opened sermons.
It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance;
for it requires knowledge to perceive it and therefore he that can perceive it hath it not.
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We seek guidance from an inspired place within, but as we listen for that still, small voice we also become hostage to our phobias and neuroses, which have learned to impersonate inspiration.
To be able to distinguish our highest callings from base distortions of our personality is an elevated form of self-knowledge. Don’t imagine you can perform this feat of wisdom through thinking. When the gift of discrimination arrives, it is likely to operate beneath the level of conscious analysis. The best you can do is to observe your own process, to refrain from taking sides in the debate, to watch yourself deciding.
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Daily Inspiration - October 12, 2008"
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Contribution #2106
The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready is he to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause.
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The True Believer
Page 14
Published by HarperCollins
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, 1951
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Contribution #2069
All I say is by way of discourse, and nothing by way of advice. I should not speak so boldly if it were my due to be believed.
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The True Believer
by Eric Hoffer
Page xiii
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, 1951
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Contribution #2068
The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being.
We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.
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Who is wise? One who learns from all.
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Talmud
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Contribution #2030
The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it.
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Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.
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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
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No man is wise enough by himself.
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Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.
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There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
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In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it, thou art a fool.
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The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.
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Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
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Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.
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To see what is in front of one's nose requires a constant struggle.
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Talent is God-given, be humble;
Fame is man-given be thankful;
Conceit is self given, be careful.
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The LORD will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the widow.
What does humility look like in a person?
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