A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines.

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Culture is an instrument wielded by teachers to manufacture teachers, who, in their turn, will manufacture still more teachers.

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Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors who when their turn comes, will manufacture professors.

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The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.

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There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too.

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For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

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The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil.

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It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.

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Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.

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Most idealistic people are skint. I have discovered that people with money have no imagination, and people with imagination have no money.

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