"Existence would be a quite impracticable enterprise if we stopped granting importance to what has none."

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“Fortunate those who, born before science, were privileged to die of their first disease!”

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“The more one is obsessed with God, the less one is innocent. Nobody bothered about him in paradise. The fall brought about this divine torture. It's not possible to be conscious of divinity without guilt. Thus God is rarely to be found in an innocent soul.”

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"Existence of Isvara follows our conception of Isvara. Let us first know whose concept He is. The concept will be only according to the one who conceives. Find out who you are and the other problem wil…"

— Ramana Maharshi

Philosophy1879–1950

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"I hate government. I hate power. I think that man's existence, insofar as he achieves anything, is to resist power, to minimize power, to devise systems of society in which power is the least exerted."

— Malcolm Muggeridge

Journalism1903–1990

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"I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy."

— Oscar Wilde

Literature1854–1900

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"In vain do they think themselves innocent who appropriate to their own use alone those goods which God gave in common; by not giving to others that which they themselves receive, they become homicides…"

— Pope Gregory I

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