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The most important choice we can make is to control our thoughts.
“As the man was bundled into an armoured police van, he turned and shouted: ‘Don’t waste your life following others! Be individual! Live your dreams!’
I stood there thinking. He was right. Ours is a society of followers, trapped by an island mentality.”
― The Caliph's House: A Year in Casablanca
I stood there thinking. He was right. Ours is a society of followers, trapped by an island mentality.”
― The Caliph's House: A Year in Casablanca
“For the most part we do not first see, and then define, we define first and then see. In the great blooming, buzzing confusion of the outer world we pick out what our culture has already defined for us, and we tend to perceive that which we have picked out in the form stereotyped for us by our culture.”
― Public Opinion
― Public Opinion
“I still vote civilization a nuisance, society a humbug and all conventionality a crime.”
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“These days a scientist is not supposed to detect intelligence in the miracle of cosmos or beauty in a bird of paradise, though he's always quick to be excited by beauty in his own theories.”
― The Madhouse: A Fantasy Corresponding To Truth
― The Madhouse: A Fantasy Corresponding To Truth
“Stare. It is the way to educate your eye, and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.”
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Q&A with Tahir Shah
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