Gautama Buddha Quotes
The fool who recognizes his foolishness, is a wise man. But the fool who believes himself a wise man, he really is a fool.
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Let's cooperate and challenge the administration to cooperate with us because within the administration there are also moderates and people who are not fully comfortable with the tendencies that have prevailed in recent times.
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I'm a homebody for sure. I do a lot of work at home.
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The way I see politics is, I don't think it's cynical to accept the fact politicians are human beings, that they're flawed, and they represent the best and the worst of us.
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Religion is love; in no case is it logic.
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The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.
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The Defense Department must do a better job of providing the best possible care for service women who are victims of sexual assault.
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The zeal which begins with hypocrisy must conclude in treachery at first it deceives, at last it betrays.
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A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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I know not how I seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with while the vast ocean of undiscovered truth lay before me.
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Labor, but slight not meditation; meditate, but slight not labor.
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His perfect kingdom of killing, suffering and pain Demands devotion, atrocities done in his name.
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Sweet is true love though given in vain, in vain; And sweet is death who puts an end to pain: I know not which is sweeter, no, not I. Love, art thou sweet? then bitter death must be: Love, thou art bitter; sweet is death to me. O Love, if death be sweeter, let me die. ... I fain would follow love, if that could be; I needs must follow death, who calls for me; Call and I follow, I follow! let me die.
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Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.” - Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha "We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us from.
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The fool who recognizes his foolishness, is a wise man. But the fool who believes himself a wise man, he really is a fool.
