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“Inheritance and culture obscure people’s higher capacities.”
“Be a dog, but don't be a younger brother.Proverb.”
“Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaBribe Substitute for law, which is a substitute for justice.”
“Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaSupporter: Someone who will say anything.”
“Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaAdherent:Someone who will believe anything except what he should.”
“Causes: As important a fact as any individual cause on earth is the vital incapacity of the human individual to distinguish between genuine cause and one which is foisted upon him by pressure, envi...”
“Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaPatience: A support for the disappointed.”
“Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaCommunity: Irrationals unified by hope of the impossible.”
“From the beginning, from the age of Adam to the time of kingship: from the powerful, pardon: from the poor, sins.”
“Virtually all organisations known to you work largely by means of your greed.”
“You say that this society will come to an end, because societies always have done so. I wonder whether they have ended because they were not really societies at all.”
“Take the wheat, not the measure in which it is contained”
“Our heads are filled with ‘knowledge’, a knowledge that in some areas pre-empts our seeing anything at all.”
“Presence and AbsenceA certain person may have, as you say, a wonderful presence: I do not know. What I do know is that he has a perfectly delightful absence.”
“The significance of the dwelling is in the dweller.”
“I am an idol worshipper; for I understand what idol worship means, and the idolater does not.”
“The basic urge toward mysticism is never, in the unaltered man, clear enough to be recognized for what it is.”
“For every Pharoah there is a Moses.”
“among roses, be a rose, among thorns, be a thorn”
“Disappointment cannot exist without expectation. “The expected apricot is never as sweet when it reaches the mouth.”
