"It is useless to send armies against ideas."

Brandes, George on ideas   

"It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on ideas
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"Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds"

Gourmont, Remy De on ideas   

"Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on courage
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"If that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless deaths and resurrections, will the spirit of man be unable to pass from this body to another?"

Bryan, William Jennings on spirituality   

"You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience."

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De on spirituality
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"They understand but a little who understand only what can be explained."

Ebner-Eschenbach, Marie on spirituality   

"When you examine the lives of the most influential people who have ever walked among us, you discover one thread that winds through them all. They have been aligned first with their spiritual nature and only then with their physical selves."

Einstein, Albert on spirituality
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"Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma."

Joubert, Joseph on spirituality
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"He whom God has touched will always be a being apart: he is, whatever he may do, a stranger among men; he is marked by a sign."

Renan, Ernest on spirituality
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"The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises."

Freud, Sigmund on mind
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"We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do."

Barrett, Ethel on individuality
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"Everything without tells the individual that he is nothing; everything within persuades him that he is everything."

Doudan, X. on individuality
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"Follow the crowd and you will never be followed by a crowd."

Unknown, Source on individuality   

"There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line."

Levant, Oscar on insanity
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"It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it."

Beaumont, Francis on silence
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"Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding. [Proverbs 17:28]"

Bible on silence
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"There are times when silence has the loudest voice."

Brownlow, Leroy on silence
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"Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves."

Carlyle, Thomas on silence   

"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation."

Thoreau, Henry David on desperation
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"The desire of the lazy kill him; for his hands refuse to labor. [Proverbs 21:25]"

Bible on desire
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"He who desires but does not act, breeds pestilence."

Blake, William on desire
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"Love blinds us to faults, but hatred blinds us to virtues."

Ezra, Iba on hatred
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"It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not."

Gide, Andre on hatred
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"Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on hatred   

"A different world cannot be built by indifferent people."

Marshall, Peter on indifference
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"It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain; and some of our grieves... have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling compassion as the common inheritance of us all."

Conrad, Joseph on emotions
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"The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool."

Santayana, George on emotions
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"To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth."

Voltaire on death
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"Take care of your of your life and the Lord will take of your death."

Whitefield, George on death   

"If your time ain't come not even a doctor can kill you."

Proverb, American on death
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"Virtue alone has majesty in death."

Young, Edward on death   

"No evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil."

Zeno, Citium on death
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"To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies."

Auerbach, Red on death
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"Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh."

Aurelius, Marcus on death   

"Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance."

Bayly, Joseph on death
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"And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]"

Bible on death
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"Those who have lived a good life do not fear death, but meet it calmly, and even long for it in the face of great suffering. But those who do not have a peaceful conscience, dread death as though life means nothing but physical torment. The challenge is to live our life so that we will be prepared for death when it comes."

Unknown, Source on death
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"To fear death is to misunderstand life."

Unknown, Source on death
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"When death overtakes us; all that we have is left to others; all that we are we take with us."

Unknown, Source on death
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