“If good happens, good; if bad happens, good. ”
― Tao Te Ching: A New English Version
― Tao Te Ching: A New English Version
“What we can and should change is ourselves: our impatience, our egoism (including intellectual egoism), our sense of injury, our lack of love and forbearance. I regard every other attempt to change the world, even if it springs from the best intentions, as futile.”
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“I cling like a miser to the freedom that disappears as soon as there is an excess of things.”
― Lyrical and Critical Essays
― Lyrical and Critical Essays
“Those who tell you that man is unable to perceive a reality undistorted by his senses, mean that they are unwilling to perceive a reality undistorted by their feelings. "Things as they are" are things as perceived by your mind; divorce them from reason and they become "things as perceived by your wishes.”
― Atlas Shrugged
― Atlas Shrugged
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