Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.

What do you despise? By this are you truly known.

The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.

Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.

Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us?

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.

He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.

Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.

Truth suffers from too much analysis.

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror.

Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.

The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian.

The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalent.

There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors.

Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.

One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is.

It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.

Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.

Something cannot emerge from nothing.

When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual.

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear.

It's easier to be terrified by an enemy you admire.

The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it.

A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct.

Every civilization depends on the quality of the individuals it produces. If you over organize humans over legalize them suppress their urge to greatness they cannot work and their civilization collapses

A good companion is one you wouldnt mind dying with.

The best contribution one can make to humanity is to improve oneself.

The most terrifying things in the universe came from human minds.

Emotions are the curse of logic.

Most deadly errors arise from obsolete assumptions.

Polish comes from the cities wisdom from the desert.

Ecology is often confused with environmentalism while in fact environmentalism often leaves out the fact that people too can be a legitimate part of an ecosystem.

The highest function of ecology is the understanding of consequences.

Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual.

There is no real ending. Its just the place where you stop the story.

To see eternity was to be exposed to eternitys whims oppressed by endless dimensions.

The future remains uncertain and so it should for it is the canvas upon which we paint our desires. Thus always the human condition faces a beautifully empty canvas.

If we define Futurism as an exploration beyond accepted limits then the nature of limiting systems becomes the first object of exploration.

The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.

There has never been a truly selfless rebel just hypocrites conscious hypocrites or unconscious hypocrites its all the same.

One moment of incompetence can be fatal.