Gautama Buddha Quotes
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
Quotes to Explore
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The main concern of the study is with the outline of a theoretical system. Its minor variations from writer to writer are not a matter of concern to this analysis.
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The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment.
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The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis.
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The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.
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Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco's art industry as a core reason for visiting.
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Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.
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My dad was a doctor, but he was just always, like, going from hospital to hospital for some reason.
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I desperately need the love of complete strangers. That's one reason I overtip. I love when skycaps, waiters, and valets are happy to see me.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
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No one knows quite the reason, but surgically severing the corpus callosum can reduce the rate and intensity of seizures. So in the early 1960s, a few patients with severe epilepsy had their corpus callosums cut, turning them into split-brain people.
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It is not rational to assume, without evidence, that rationality can disclose everything about the world, just because it can disclose some things. Our intuition in favour of rationality, where we are inclined to use it, is just that - an intuition. Reason is founded in intuition and ends in intuition, like a pair of massive bookends.
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Be brave and fearless to know that even if you do make a wrong decision, you're making it for a good reason.
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Few people know what they mean when they say, "I love you." ... Well, what does the word love mean? It means total interest. I think the reason very few people really fall in love with anyone is they're not willing to pay the price. The price is you have to adjust yourself to them.
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I didn't die young. So I am very lucky. There are other artists and people that didn't survive certain things... people can imagine that I did the most dangerous, and I did the worst... for many reasons, I shouldn't be here.
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Sirsasana the king of all asanas and the reasons are not hard to find.
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I don't ever want something that I didn't do because I was afraid of it or I didn't think I'd be good at it - within reason. Obviously I'm never going to be able to play the trumpet.
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I find the idea of common descent (that all organisms share a common ancestor) fairly convincing, and have no particular reason to doubt it.
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When it comes to writing songs, I've always got to be commissioned to do it. I won't write unless someone has got a real genuine purpose for it.
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The belts to me, they don't really mean much to be honest. It's the people who I fought and me going out there competing and fighting.
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Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
