Gautama Buddha Quotes
All things appear and disappear because of the concurrence of causes and conditions. Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else.
Quotes to Explore
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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
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I think that nationality has no relation to that which gives rise to manga. Even among the Japanese, manga creators are making their creations everyday reflecting their own individuality, with none being the same. What is important isn't the differences between the creators but their love for manga.
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The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
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Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
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Cookbooks bear the same relation to real books that microwave food bears to your grandmother?s.
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A temperament capable of receiving, through an imaginative medium, and under imaginative conditions, new and beautiful impressions, is the only temperament that can appreciate a work of art.
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Astronomy leads us to a unique event, a universe which was created out of nothing, and delicately balanced to provide exactly the conditions required to support life. In the absence of an absurdly improbable accident, the observations of modern science seem to suggest an underlying, one might say, supernatural plan.
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Love is not neutral. It takes a stand. It is a commitment to the attainment of the conditions of peace for everyone involved in a situation.
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A worker was seldom so much annoyed by what he got as by what he got in relation to his fellow workers.
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The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.
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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.
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Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live.
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The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.
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The United Nations' founders understood that decisions affecting war and peace should happen only by consensus, and with America's consent, the veto by Security Council permanent members was enshrined in the United Nations Charter. The profound wisdom of this has underpinned the stability of international relations for decades.
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In relations between the states ... the interests of the country should be correlated with the interests of other countries, and compromise is to be found when resolving the most complex issues.
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Under conditions of peace the warlike man attacks himself.
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For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.
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Politics have no relation to morals.
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In particular, people have trouble understanding where I stand in relation to my characters, and very often this gets reduced to me making vicious fun of them.
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We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception.
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All things appear and disappear because of the concurrence of causes and conditions. Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else.
