If we spent half an hour every day in silent immobility, I am convinced that we should conduct all our affairs, personal, national, and international, far more sanely than we do at present.

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Every great idea starts out as a blasphemy.

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The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.

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Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.

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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.

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To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.

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If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason for thinking as you do.

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Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.

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The key to happiness is accepting one unpleasant reality every day.

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When you want to teach children to think, you begin by treating them seriously when they are little, giving them responsibilities, talking to them candidly, providing privacy and solitude for them, and making them readers and thinkers of significant thoughts from the beginning. That’s if you want to teach them to think.

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