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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln, 16th U.S. president
Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
James Russel Lowell, American Romatic poet, critic, and diplomat
It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.
Oscar Wilde, Irish writer and poet (via lucifelle)
1815In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight.
Ram Dass, contemporary American spiritual teacher
Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.
Franz Kafka, influential German short story and novel writer
Our modern society is engaged in polishing and decorating the cage in which man is kept imprisoned
Swami Nirmalananda, Indian guru, monk, and philosopher
You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him discover it in himself.
Galileo Galilei, Italian physicist, mathematician, and astronomer (via lucifelle)
(Source: thecultofgenius, via lucifelle)
An old belief is like an old shoe. We so value its comfort that we fail to notice the hole in it.
Robert Brault, American free-lance writer and blogger
Most people have to talk so they don’t have to hear.
Mary Sarton, American poet and novelist
Before turning to those moral and mental aspects of the matter which present the greatest difficulties, let the inquirer begin by mastering more elementary problems.
Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle), fictional British detective (via philphys)
