"Wisdom lies in thinking. The spear-head of thinking is rationalism"

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Source : "Collected works of Thanthai Periyar E.V. Ramasami". Book published by Periyar Self-Respect Propaganda Institution, p. 49, 1981.

Periyar E. V. Ramasamy

#Lying Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Spears Quotes

“One of the most persistent of all delusions is the conviction that the source of our dissatisfaction lies outside ourselves.”

Source : B. Alan Wallace (2014). “Mind in the Balance: Meditation in Science, Buddhism, and Christianity”, p.41, Columbia University Press
“I adore artifice. I always have.”
“Genius is by definition a style of consciousness characterized by the ability to access high energy attractor patterns. It is not a personality characteristic. It is not something that a person has, nor even something that someone is. Those in whom we recognize genius commonly disclaim it. A universal characteristic of genius is humility. The genius has always attributed his insights to some higher influence.”
“I seem to use this word 'kind' very frequently. When one is unhappy or anxious it is a quality one dwells on.”
“For in Calormen, story-telling (whether the stories are true or made up) is a thing you're taught, just as English boys and girls are taught essay-writing. The difference is that people want to hear the stories, whereas I never heard of anyone who wanted to read the essays.”
“Had the jury convicted on proper instructions it would be the end of the matter. But juries are not bound by what seems inescapable logic to judges.”
“Most critics write critiques which are by the authors they write critiques about. That would not be so bad, but then most authorswrite works which are by the critics who write critiques about them.”
“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”

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