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Vagueness is at times an indication of nearness to a perfect truth.

To be a leader of men one must turn one’s back on men.

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.

Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.

When we say that Philosophy tries to clear up the meanings of concepts we do not mean that it is simply concerned to substitute some long phrase for some familiar word.

No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.

How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.