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“Once upon a time, I dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only of my happiness as a butterfly, unaware that I was myself....”
“Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.”
“I am a sick man... I am a spiteful man. I am an unpleasant man. I think my liver is diseased. However, I don't know beans about my disease, and I am not sure what is bothering me. I don't treat it ...”
“One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.”
“If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin.”
“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”
“I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.”
“Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too.”
“To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher.”
“Choose to be happy. It is what we have all done.”
“I am my world.”
“He who is not satisfied with a little, is satisfied with nothing .”
“Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.”
“Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words,-Wait and hope.”
“No man was ever wise by chance”
“I am one thing, my writings are another.”
“A painting is more than the sum of its parts,' he would tell me, and then go on to explain how the cow by itself is just a cow, and the meadow by itself is just grass and flowers, and the sun peeki...”
“As long as we are children, we have the ability to experience things around us--but then we grow used to the world. To grow up is to get drunk on sensory experience.”
“Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.”
“Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.”
