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#1

“I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.”
― Leo Tolstoy

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#2

“When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everyone will respect you.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, integrity, self-reliance, self-respect

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#3

“Give evil nothing to oppose
and it will disappear by itself.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

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#4

“Love

Embracing Tao, you become embraced.
Supple, breathing gently, you become reborn.
Clearing your vision, you become clear.
Nurturing your beloved, you become impartial.
Opening your heart, you become accepted.
Accepting the World, you embrace Tao.
Bearing and nurturing,
Creating but not owning,
Giving without demanding,
Controlling without authority,
This is love.”
― Laozi, The Teachings of Lao-Tzu: The Tao-Te Ching

tags: love

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#5

“The further one goes, the less one knows.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

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#6

“When people see some things as beautiful,
other things become ugly.
When people see some things as good,
other things become bad.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

tags: beauty, evil, good, inspirational, lao-tzu, tao-te-ching, worldview

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#7

“Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self. When we don't see the self as self, what do we have to fear?”
― Lao-Tzu, The Way of Life

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#8

“Do you want to improve the world?
I don't think it can be done.

The world is sacred.
It can't be improved.
If you tamper with it, you'll ruin it.
If you treat it like an object, you'll lose it.

There is a time for being ahead,
a time for being behind;
a time for being in motion,
a time for being at rest;
a time for being vigorous,
a time for being exhausted;
a time for being safe,
a time for being in danger.

The Master sees things as they are,
without trying to control them.
She lets them go their own way,
and resides at the center of the circle.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

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#9

“What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don鈥檛 like it.”
― Alan Wilson Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety

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#10

“I have always been fascinated by the law of reversed effort. Sometimes I call it the 鈥渂ackwards law.鈥� When you try to stay on the surface of the water, you sink; but when you try to sink, you float. When you hold your breath, you lose it鈥攚hich immediately calls to mind an ancient and much neglected saying, 鈥淲hosoever would save his soul shall lose it.”
― Alan W. Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity

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#11

“And I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper. If we read of one man robbed, or murdered, or killed by accident, or one house burned, or one vessel wrecked, or one steamboat blown up, or one cow run over on the Western Railroad, or one mad dog killed, or one lot of grasshoppers in the winter, - we need never read of another. One is enough. If you are acquainted with the principle, what do you care for a myriad instances and applications?”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods

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#12

“Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each other. We meet at meals three times a day, and give each other a new taste of that old musty cheese that we are.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

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#13

“In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

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#14

“I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

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#15

“As long as possible live free and uncommitted. It makes but little difference whether you are committed to a farm or the county jail.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

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#16

“No man ever followed his genius til it misled him.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods

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#17

“Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each other.We meet at meals three times a day, and give each other a new taste of that musty old cheese that we are. We have had to agree on a certain set of rules, called etiquette and politeness, to make this frequent meeting tolerable and that we need not come to open war. We meet at the post office, and at the sociable, and at the fireside every night; we live thick and are in each other's way, and stumble over one another, and I think that we thus lose some respect for one another.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

tags: antisocial, introversion, introvert, philosophy, social, solitude, thoreau, walden

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#18

“The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser savage.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

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#19

“Those who are most sensitive about "politically incorrect" terminology are not the average black ghetto-dweller, Asian immigrant, abused woman or disabled person, but a minority of activists, many of whom do not even belong to any "oppressed" group but come from privileged strata of society.”
― Theodore Kaczynski, Industrial Society and Its Future

tags: activism, censorship, class, class-warfare, emotions-and-attitude, freedom-of-speech, gender-feminism, hypocrisy, hypocrisy-in-everyone, immigrant-experience, immigrants, insanity, insanity-is-normal, liberal-hypocrisy, liberalism, oppression, oppressors, patronization, patronizing, political-correct-crap, political-correctness, political-insanity, politically-correct, politics, politics-insanity, politics-of-the-united-states, post-feminism, privilege, sensitivity, shits-fucked-up-yo, society, society-thinking, white-privilege

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#20

“Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy then gives them the drugs to take away their unhappiness. Science fiction It is already happening to some extent in our own society. Instead of removing the conditions that make people depressed modern society gives them antidepressant drugs. In effect antidepressants are a means of modifying an individual's internal state in such a way as to enable him to tolerate social conditions that he would otherwise find intolerable.”
― Theodore Kaczynski

tags: absurdity, depression, drugs, pharmaceuticals, psychiatry, psychology, society

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#21

“The conservatives are fools: They whine about the decay of traditional values, yet they enthusiastically support technological progress and economic growth. Apparently it never occurs to them that you can't make rapid, drastic changes in the technology and the economy of a society without causing rapid changes in all other aspects of the society as well, and that such rapid changes inevitably break down traditional values.”
― Theodore J. Kaczynski, Industrial Society and Its Future

tags: change, conservatism, conservative, culture, democrat, economy, inconsistency, individual, industrialization, liberal, popular-culture, progressivism, reform, republican, society, technology, tradition, traditional, traditional-values

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#22

“It is obvious that [leftists] are not cool-headed logicians systematically analyzing the foundations of knowledge. They are deeply involved emotionally in their attack on truth and reality.”
― Theodore Kaczynski

tags: left, leftism, leftists, liberals, logic

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#23

“The leftist is anti-individualistic... He is not the sort of person who has an inner sense of confidence in his own ability to solve his own problems and satisfy his own needs.”
― Theodore Kaczynski

tags: individualism, left, leftism, leftist, leftists

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#24

“Modern leftish philosophers tend to dismiss reason, science, objective reality and to insist that everything is culturally relative. More importantly, the leftist hates science and rationality because they classify certain beliefs as true (i.e., successful, superior) and other beliefs as false (i.e., failed, inferior). The leftist鈥檚 feelings of inferiority run so deep that he cannot tolerate any classification of some things as successful or superior and other things as failed or inferior. This also underlies the rejection by many leftists of the concept of mental illness and of the utility of IQ tests. Leftists are antagonistic to genetic explanations of human abilities or behavior because such explanations tend to make some persons appear superior or inferior to others. Leftists prefer to give society the credit or blame for an individual鈥檚 ability or lack of it. Thus if a person is 鈥渋nferior鈥� it is not his fault, but society鈥檚, because he has not been brought up properly.”
― Theodore J. Kaczynski, Industrial Society and Its Future

tags: hypersensitivity, inferiority-complex, leftism, postmodernism

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#25

“A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor 鈥� such is my idea of happiness.”
― Leo Tolstoy, 小械屑械泄薪芯械褋褔邪褋褌懈械

tags: books, conduct-of-life, contentment, country, happiness, life, music, nature, neighborliness, rest, usefulness, work

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#26

“If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Essays, Letters and Miscellanies

tags: advice-for-writers, awareness, life

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#27

“Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking...”
― Leo Tolstoy

tags: honesty, independent-thought

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#28

“Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.”
― Leo Tolstoy, A Confession

tags: conscience, majority, right-and-wrong, truth, wrong

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#29

“Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand."

- Anna Karenina {Anna Karenina}”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

tags: love

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#30

“Boredom: the desire for desires.”
― Leo Tolstoy

tags: truth

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