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Just found this treasure of quotes floating around in the hard drive :)

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Philip K Dick:

“We are served by organic ghosts, he thought, who, speaking and writing, pass through this our new environment. Watching, wise, physical ghosts from the full-life world, elements of which have become for us invading but agreeable splinters of a substance that pulsates like a former heart.”
–Ubik (1970)
“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.”
– VALIS (1979)



"You'll see how the evil that devours the men are the fruit of their choice, and that those wretch search outside themselves the goods they have inside." Pythagoras' golden verses.



"As poor as the table that lacks bread so the most exemplary life happens to be empty if lacking of love".- Anthony of Padua



"There's no fire like the Passion; there's no evil like hatred". - Buddha



"So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you." .- Mathew 7:12



"This is the sum of duty; do naught onto others what you would not have them do unto you." (Mahabharata, 5:15)



"The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found" .– Novalis
"Only the knowledge that comes from inside is the real Knowledge" .– Socrates



"The serene spirit accepts the pleasure and the pain with a serene mind and it is not touched by any of them".– II, 15. Bhagavad-Gita.



"The fool who recognizes his foolishness, is a wise man. But the fool who believes himself a wise man, he really is a fool".– The Buddha.



"Never break the silence unless you can improve it".– Ludwig Van Beethoven


"The bad one is that way because of the ignorance, therefore he can be healed with wisdom".– Socrates

"Love is the humblest yet the most powerful force that the human being has".– Gandhi



"Poverty doesn't come because of the decrease of wealth but because of the increase of desires." – Plato



"Science without Conscience is only the ruin of the Soul ". - Francois Rabelais.



“Patience is the strength of the weak, impatience is the weakness of the strong”. Emmanuel Kant



In one hundred year one could not achieve the degree of perfection; whereas in one single hour one could descend to the lowest”.- Papini



It is not the other who happens to be an obstacle for your liberty. It is yourself. There are many forces existing within you that besiege you awareness. They are your truly and unique enemy. Hervé, Walkman.



“The Men condemn because they don’t understand” The Koran



“Man, be afraid of yourself, your pride, your vanity and your arrogance”. The Bible



“Desire and happiness cannot live together.” Epictetus.



“Rule your mind or it will rule you”. Horace.



“There is no greater magnificence than to defeat oneself. That is the magnificence…” Socrates



“I know no other sign of superiority than Goodness”. Beethoven



“Those who pretend to investigate the transcendental truths of the Being based on pure reasoning fall in the same mistake as someone who, ignoring how to use the science’s modern instruments, tries to study the life of what is infinitely small with telescopes and the life of what is infinitely large with microscopes”. Samael Aun Weor.



“The experiences show us just as we are; they make us see our own defects” Goethe.



“Ignorance is the greatest poverty". Panchatantra



“If one doesn’t get the desired object, there is unhappiness. If one gets it, there is anxiety for the possibility of losing it. If there is lack of it or its answers is negative, there is greater unhappiness. In this way, the real joy consists in the renouncement of desire”. Sivananda



“Love is the fat wing that God has given to the Soul so it can fly up to Heaven” Michel Angelo

The noblest placer is the joy of Understanding. - Leonardo Da Vinci

“The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds…” . Seneca



"It makes no good to point the failures out without showing at the same time the remedy to address them". Goethe

“The biggest mistake that the doctors make is to heal the body without trying to heal the Soul; however, body and soul are one and they shouldn’t be treated separately”. Plato



“Our good and bad deeds follow us almost like a shadow”. Buddha

“For he who is born, the death is for sure, and for he who is dead, to born is for sure. Therefore you should not complain in the inevitable performing of your duty”. Bhagavad Guita.

“The happiest man is the one who finds happiness at home”. Goethe



We come from God. As the tree from the root and the stream from the spring; that’s why we should always be in contact with Him, as the trunk from the root. Because the stream dries up when it is separated from the spring and the tree dies when is uprooted”. Pythagoras.



“The Esoteric Philosophy conciliates all religions, undresses them from their external human clothes and probes that the root of every one of those is the same of all the others religions”. Helena Petronila Blavatski



“Freedom is something that we got to achieve inside ourselves. Nobody can achieve it outside oneself”.
Samael Aun Weor



“A person is what his life is. Therefore, if he does not modify anything within himself, if he does not radically transform his life, if he does not work on himself, he is miserably wasting his time”. Samael Aun Weor



“We truly live happy if we don’t hate those who hate us, if among men who hate us we live free of bitterness”. Buddha, Dhammapada.



“Satyât nâsti paro dharmah”. There is no higher religion that the Truth. Elena Petronila Blavatsky. The Secret Doctrine.



“We need the conflagration of Love to change the world, we need the fire of love to illuminate the society. The cold, insipid and complicated codes don’t change anything, don’t transform anything. All the best social projects and the best political principles are useless if they are not written with the fire of Love. The real revolution is the result of TRANSFORMATION, only the storms of Love can transform the individual and the society”. Samael Aun Weor



“Each one projects his own defects over the others, each one see in other his own defects”.
Samael Aun Weor.



“Wise are those who control their body, their tongue and their mind, those are the real Masters". Dhammapada, 17:14.



“The strong tendency to blame others is a barrier, an obstacle for the comprehension of our own mistakes”. Samael Aun Weor.



“Really Love itself is the extract of the whole Knowledge, it is written that in last synthesis the Wisdom can be reduced into Love, and the Love into Happiness”. Samael Aun Weor



“To tell you the Truth: It’s better to give rather than to receive”. Amado Nervo (Mexican Poet)



"Violence generates more violence; hatred produces more hatred. Peace cannot be conquered. Peace cannot be the result of violence. Peace comes to us only when we dissolve the Ego, when we destroy within us all those psychological factors that produce war". Samael Aun Weor.



Jealousy destroys the matrimonies; jealousy destroys the friendships, jealousy provokes religious wars, fratricidal hates, murderers and all kind of suffering. Samael Aun Weor.



“Easily seen are others' faults, hard indeed to see are one's own. Life chaff one winnows others' faults, but one's own (faults) one hides, as a crafty fowler conceals himself by camouflage”. Dhammapada 18:18



"Nothing is more insidious than possession. Nothing is more dangerous than desire. Nothing is more disastrous than greed. If you know when enough is enough, you will always have enough. Lao Tzú, Tao Te King 46.



"Verily, an evil deed committed does not immediately bear fruit, just as milk curdles not at once; smouldering, it follows the fool like fire covered with ashes". Dhammapada, 5:12



“If you live criticizing people, you won’t have time to love them”.-Goethe



"Irrigators lead the water; fletchers fashion the shaft; carpenters carve the wood; the wise discipline themselves".- Dhammapada 6:5



“Sickness is the result not only of our acts, but out thoughts also.” - Mahatma Ghandi
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  1. Garuda's Avatar
    Nice!
  2. Doc's Avatar
    I still come back to these!
  3. lycaeus's Avatar
    I'm glad you liked them. Gives a nice uplifting feeling.
  4. lycaeus's Avatar
    i'd take the name blavatsky off that list because she was a satanist but what she said is decent enough.