"As one lamp serves to dispel a thousand years of darkness, so one flash of wisdom destroys ten thousand years of ignorance."

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Source : Huineng (1967). “The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch”

Huineng

#Ignorance Quotes #Years Quotes #Darkness Quotes

“Despise all those things which when liberated from the body you will not want; invoke the Gods to become your helpers.”
“The value of ourselves is but the value of our melancholy and our disquiet.”

Source : Maurice Maeterlinck (2015). “The Treasure of the Humble: Works of Maeterlinck”, p.36, 谷月社
“We've just learned how to balance ourselves a little better so that we're happier way more of the time than not, and, you know, being happy is a radical and desirable act if you ask me.”
“How immense to us appear the sins we have not committed.”

Source : "Many Thoughts of Many Minds: A Treasury of Quotations From the Literature of Every Land and Every Age" edited by Louis Klopsch, (p. 229), 1896.
“It's cool to have instruments lying around because they give you different ideas.”
“Everything breaks; the only things that last are things you're willing to fix.”
“The US and UK governments' relentless backing for the global spread of genetically modified seeds was in fact the implementation of a decades long policy of the Rockefeller Foundation since the 1930's, when it funded Nazi eugenics research - i.e. mass-scale population reduction, and control of darker-skinned races by an Anglo-Saxon white elite. As some of these circles saw it, war as a means of population reduction was costly and not that efficient.”
“I was born in 1949 - which seems like a long time ago... Actually, it is a long time ago, when I think about it.”

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