Lao Tzu Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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There is no 'natural' order, only the way things are.
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A ruler makes use of the majority and neglects the minority, and so he does not devote himself to virtue but to law.
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Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
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In order to be universal, you have to be rooted in your own culture.
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Compassion is not a popular virtue.
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In 1998, I self-published online in order to get a traditional deal.
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I don't order laws, I propose them.
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The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope.
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Obviously people read the books in order to be entertained.
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What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order.
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A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
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The thing I love about sketch is sometimes it leads you as opposed to you leading it.
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Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
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To every object there correspond an ideally closed system of truths that are true of it and, on the other hand, an ideal system of possible cognitive processes by virtue of which the object and the truths about it would be given to any cognitive subject.
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In order to be cruel we have to close our hearts to the suffering of the other.
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I think a lot of people love to convolute what everyone else does in order to disempower women.
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Justice is merely incidental to law and order.
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Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
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The soul is pure when it leaves the body and drags nothing bodily with it, by virtue of having no willing association with the body in life but avoiding it.......Practicing philosophy in the right way is a training to die easily.
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I love acting. Oh, God, I love it. But all this fame and all this bullshit attention. I'm not supernatural. I've done nothing extremely special to deserve the position. It happens every couple of years, and it's happened to hundreds of people before me.
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People sometimes forget that jazz was built not only in the minds of the great ones but on the backs of the ordinary ones — ordinary musicians.
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The more man knows of man, the better for the common brotherhood among men.
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In other words: If an organism is stuck in survival mode, its energies are focused on fighting off unseen enemies, which leaves no room for nurture, care, and love. For us humans, it means that as long as the mind is defending itself against invisible assaults, our closest bonds are threatened, along with our ability to imagine, plan, play, learn, and pay attention to other people’s needs.
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Profound virtue is indeed deep and wide. It leads all things back to the great order.
