8-70 next best aphorisms

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The gods go in and out of existence, like moonlight flickering on the waves.

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For every inspiring day there is an expiring day. The spirits go in and the spirits go out.

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Billboards put holes in the earth and sky.

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The Greeks must have decided on the four elements while sunbathing on the beach. Sand, wind, sun and sea - what more does the world need?

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A philosopher should not create a world to distract us, but help us to see and live happily in the one world we all share. Hence I distrust thick books.

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Suppose the body, in order to deepen itself, to enrich life, not merely succumbs to but seeks out illness. Would not modern medicine be a bad joke?

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It is easy to forget the best in oneself. An environment of man-made objects confuses and distracts.

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The best freedom is moving one's fingers.

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At a certain point, our life of entertainment, however good, bores us, and we turn towards our call.

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Only the poorest can be richest in heart. Only the richest can be poorest in heart.

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Excess hides.

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Am I challenging you to be awake or giving you more dream material?

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Aphorisms are animals to ride for a while.

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"It's probably like this." If the physicists can do it so can I.

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Word-thieves! They've robbed philosophy, intelligence, ...

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American fleedom. The land of the flee.

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A society should not be a ceiling but a roof.

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I would only believe in a God about which nothing could be said. In the end it would be equivalent to a blessing, sometimes heartrending, on all of life and all the world.

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The world is always perfect, but we will never know how it is perfect.

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Science is a dead-end. It only plays with objects. It doesn't play with subjects.

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Consciousness is god's mystical experience.

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Truth is what you meet when you wake up.

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(French) My economics - I define wealth as time for one's spirit to roam. The only increase in wealth in the past 80 years has been the French 35 hour work-week law.

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When the gods abbandon a species, it's members are allowed to start believing in a God. Only to those few who become Godless will the gods return.

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Either the world is crazy or humans are crazy. It's saner to believe the latter.

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Science is not a search for truth but an attempt to coerce people to a certain behavior.

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Don't confuse sane with same.

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All eternity was made for this moment but this moment has no purpose at all.

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The subconscious works best when we are not conscious of it.

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The world is a constant flow from happiness to suffering to happiness to suffering. Within happiness is the light of suffering. Within suffering, that of happiness. Peace, the domain of saints, rocks and the dead, has neither. The dance continues forever.

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Imagine a world where you live forever. No babies. No little boys. No girls. Just huge populations of 500-1000 year olds driving around in artificial life-support machines.

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h A red ribbon of light wedged between darkening sea and sky greets me at the end of a day's work and pain. To be healed by beauty is the world's gift to us.

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There is no mirror image of me.

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"Don't worry, be happy" ? Hope and worry are intertwined. Don't hope, be happy.

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Dreams are a mixture of the human and the inhuman.

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r The word three descrbes not what is out there but only with reference to humans

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The gods work in mysterious ways - it's a mystery even to themselves.

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We have an unconscious psychic communication with humanity, near and far. The conscious verbal human communication is always an internal dialogue, posing as external.

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We modern intellectual consumers run away from the mysteries of life - birth, childhood, eating, (dreams,) sex, parenting, old age, death.

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The blind do not see black, they touch, hear, taste and smell.

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We create our own anxiety-release-joy cycles to substitute for the world's which we can't control.

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God bless America ? God is taking America for a ride.

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You have the freedom to choose the color of your slavery.

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Fake people and cultures need to be exposed, otherwise you get taken for a long ride.

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Dogmatism, positive thinking - dancing on one leg.

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No matter how you try you can't get out of this world.

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You can't make the world better, you can only make it look better - and fakeland has it's own special distress and pain.

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We swim in a sea of dreams, with frequent microsecond wakeups.

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Freedom ? No limits ? You may enter areas where you are free from previous limits. There may be an infinite variety of limits but there are always limits. "No limits" equals death.

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Knowledge is not an edifice but a wandering through higher views. (seeing on a ledge?)

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Modern commercial life - there are a thousand distractions in a thousand directions away from your center but only one frightening direction towards it.

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(40 or 75 yrs ?) Life is infinitely short.

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Existence is deep, essence is shallow.

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Neither by fighting nor analyzing nor yelling at, can you wake up from the dream.

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Juries - 12 yokuls, perhaps uncorrupted, but far from the truth.

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Buddists are atheists. I realized what God is like (this powerful knowing being hovering above me) and I became nauseous. Fear? Yes, I'm afraid this huge "being" will slip and fall on me. I cannot conceive of a knowing being outside of the organic.

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America is a cultural bubble.

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Not the thrill of "winning the lottery" but the happiness of riding your wild and noble spirit.

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"What is the meaning of life?" is equivalent to asking "what must I do to live forever."

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The wealth of a nation is the sum total of the free time and equalibrium of it's citizens.

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School contains "numb-ers".

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Every civilization will be judged by how well they leave their children alone and how much they enjoy them.

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The world has thousands of colors. Americans see only red, white and blue. The rest they analyze with spectrographs.

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In mountain forests walking is dancing. On pavement, marching.

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And the truth shall make you laugh forever.

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They spend half their life in school learning how to manipulate the world and the other half manipulating it. Leave the world alone !

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You don't live forever, but your life fills up eternity.

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TV's don't breathe.

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Religion is a place where groups practice lying.

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People don't want to know truth - they want to live forever.

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