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Most people end up being conformists. They adapt to prison life. A few become reformers. They fi...

prison walls Feb 2, 2024

Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is withi...

Control the uncontrollable Feb 1, 2024

When there are fewer resources, and the environment is changing, then cooperation is vastly more...

cooperation Jan 22, 2024

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

Cravings Jan 19, 2024

Putting things off is the biggest waste of life: it snatches away each day as it comes, and deni...

Putting things off Jan 18, 2024

We should always allow some time to elapse, for time discloses the truth.

Time discloses truth Jan 15, 2024

I am blind and I know nothing, but I foresee that there are more roads.

many roads Jan 15, 2024

I judge you unfortunate because you have never lived through misfortune. You have passed through...

Misfortune Jan 11, 2024

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

excellence is a habit Jan 11, 2024

Cling tooth and nail to the following rule: Not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity...

Not to trust prosperity Dec 26, 2023

You are scared of dying and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different than bei...

Scared of dying Dec 25, 2023

Nobody works out the value of time: men use it lavishly as if it cost nothing… We have to be mor...

Value of time Dec 1, 2023

TODOROV’s literary theory was his definition, in Introduction à la LITTÉRATURE FANTASTIQUE (1970...

uncanny and marvelous Dec 15, 2021

Try Grayscale Mode to Curb Your Phone Addiction. iOS and Android make it easier than ever to sap...

reading too much Dec 15, 2021

Reading after a certain age diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who re...

reading too much Nov 1, 2021

For the classics, philosophical insight was the product of a life of leisure. For me, a life of ...

philosophical insight Oct 3, 2021

Pardon him, Theodotus: he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island ar...

laws of nature Oct 2, 2021

However convinced you were of the justice of your cause and the truth of your convictions, you o...

convinced evidence Oct 1, 2021

The most exquisite paradox: as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. As long as you w...

exquisite paradox Aug 15, 2020

Forgiveness is not forgetting. Forgiveness is freedom from hate.

Forgiveness Jul 21, 2020

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error code “402: payment required” Jul 1, 2020

Hoard food and it rots. Hoard money and you rot. Hoard power and the nation rots.

to hoard Jun 6, 2020

Skills can be practiced, methodologies can be taught, but values can only be caught.

catch the value May 4, 2020

One quarter of what you eat keeps you alive. The other three quarters keeps your doctor alive.

vision May 3, 2020

Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.

vision May 2, 2020

Beware the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they...

altering your world Apr 2, 2020

He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.

jump into the void Mar 3, 2020

Specialisation is for insects.

specialisation Jan 11, 2020

Man is not a rational animal, but a rationalising one.

rationalising Jan 10, 2020

Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

love and happiness Jan 1, 2020

Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.

character Nov 15, 2019

Here is my secret. It is very simple: it is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What i...

seeing with heart Nov 11, 2019

The problem is no longer getting people to express themselves, but providing little gaps of soli...

solitude and silence Nov 2, 2019

Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.

talent Oct 10, 2019

To be prepared against surprise is to be trained. To be prepared for surprise is to be educated.

be prepared for surprise Sep 29, 2019

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself ...

barriers within yourself Sep 11, 2019

Anytime you’re practicing renunciation, you’re deluded. How about that! You’re deluded. What are...

renouncing Aug 31, 2019

A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.

information wealth Jul 10, 2019

Western Culture is built around ideals of individual choice and freedom. Millions of us fiercely...

choice illusion May 27, 2019

More Is Less

paradox of choice May 25, 2019

Always under-promise and over-deliver. Most people tend to do the opposite.

under-promise May 20, 2019

When you feel like you need something, but you can’t figure out what it is, it’s water. It’s alw...

life's water May 19, 2019

Never be afraid to spend a little extra on a new bed and shoes. If you’re not in one, you’re in ...

life's hacks shoes May 18, 2019

Never loan a friend more than you can afford to give away.

loan a friend May 17, 2019

If you can’t afford two of it, you can’t afford it.

afford life's hacks May 16, 2019

Your brand is what other people say about you when you’re not in the room.

your brand May 15, 2019

If you forget someone’s name simply say, “Sorry, what was your name again?” They may look annoye...

life's hacks May 15, 2019

Spend 20% of your time creating content and 80% of your time promoting it.

creating and promoting May 10, 2019

In order to change skins, evolve into new cycles, I feel one has to learn to discard. If one cha...

skins Feb 1, 2019

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.

courage Jan 31, 2019

Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.

love Jan 30, 2019

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new lif...

dreams kite Jan 29, 2019

Are you somebody, or do you take salary?

salary Jan 1, 2019

Intelligence is really a kind of taste. Taste in ideas.

taste in ideas Dec 11, 2018

When you wed yourself to the first idea you come up with, you serve your own interests, not thos...

divorcing your users Nov 30, 2018

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

painter and photographer Nov 12, 2018

Hope is not a strategy. Luck is not a factor. Fear is not an option.

hope not Nov 11, 2018

If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

foolish Nov 11, 2018

Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.

chastity Nov 11, 2018

The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaki...

the truth Nov 2, 2018

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It d...

love death Nov 1, 2018

Ironically, though, “collecting the world” might mean also losing it. “A way of certifying exper...

collecting the world Oct 26, 2018

I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cann...

consciousness is fundamental Oct 25, 2018

An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being ...

education not memory Oct 11, 2018

Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.

wandering Oct 10, 2018

Western Science is approaching a paradigm shift of unprecedented proportions, one that will chan...

beyond the brain Oct 10, 2018

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.

writer role Oct 1, 2018

It is not the position, but the disposition.

position disposition Sep 11, 2018

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took t...

painful risk Sep 1, 2018

In the kind of world we have today, transformation of humanity might well be our only real hope ...

only real hope Aug 8, 2018

Unlike art, design has a very clear success and failure state. It’s not simply an expression, it...

design vs art Aug 4, 2018

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is onl...

friend represents a world Aug 1, 2018

People are effective because they say no.

no thanks Jul 19, 2018

Management is doing things right, leadership is doing the right things.

right things Jul 7, 2018

Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it...

karmae Jul 7, 2018

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the ...

man mask Jun 28, 2018

Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.

good and evil Jun 24, 2018

Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the immi...

authoritarian political ideologies Jun 18, 2018

The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.

not said Jun 10, 2018

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

interpretation Jun 8, 2018

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry,...

mimicry Jun 5, 2018

Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

not said May 30, 2018

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that ...

worth knowing May 15, 2018

I believe it is essential for our planetary future to develop tools that can change the consciou...

change the consciousnes May 4, 2018

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.

cynic man Apr 25, 2018

Beware the stories you read or tell. Subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they...

stories you read or tell Mar 15, 2018

You must acknowledge deep in your heart of hearts that people are supposed to fuck. It is our ma...

need to fuck Feb 8, 2018

More words count less

words Jan 1, 2018

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. T...

wisdom Jan 1, 2018

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

when Jan 1, 2018

We are what we think. Everything we are, arises from our thoughts. With our thoughts we shape th...

we are what we think Jan 1, 2018

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them, that only creates sorro...

spontaneous changes Jan 1, 2018

Profit comes from what is there, usefulness from what is not there.

profit vs usefulness Jan 1, 2018

when you LIKE a flower you just pluck it, when you LOVE a flower you water it daily…

like love Jan 1, 2018

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giv...

kindness Jan 1, 2018

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

control Jan 1, 2018

When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect ...

content Jan 1, 2018

There can’t be any favorable wind to a captain who doesn’t know his port.

captain wind port Jan 1, 2018

Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.

body care Dec 2, 2017

If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And gu...

life plan Dec 1, 2017

Stay hungry. Stay foolish.

stay foolish Nov 23, 2017

There is no other pill to take, so swallow the one that makes you ill.

pill make you sick Oct 24, 2017

Inspiration is for amateurs, the rest of us just show up and get to work.

inspiration is for amateurs Oct 14, 2017

The best way to predict the future is to create it

create future Oct 6, 2017

The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.

hear what not said Oct 5, 2017

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself ...

love barriers Sep 30, 2017

You know the value of every article of merchandise, but if you don’t know the value of your own ...

merchandise Sep 29, 2017

Sometimes it is necessary to be lonely in order to prove that you are right.

lonely Sep 28, 2017

The point of conservatism is not that it prevents movement forward and upward, but that it preve...

conservatism Sep 27, 2017

The more intermediaries there are, the more problems there are.

intermediaries Sep 26, 2017

It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional, whatever the mot...

exceptional Sep 25, 2017

Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that’s not why we do it.

physics Sep 22, 2017

I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers which can’t be questioned.

answerable questions Sep 22, 2017

Never let anyone define what you are capable of by using parameters that don’t apply to you.

never let anyone Sep 14, 2017

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

wise man Sep 10, 2017

Blockchain, new technology of trust. It’s a transformation that’s already begun. And organizatio...

blockchain Aug 17, 2017

Decarbonize the electric grid.

Decarbonize the electric grid Jul 27, 2017

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

first they ignore you Jul 7, 2017

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy. For what we leave behind us is a p...

changes Jun 24, 2017

When you can’t define the questions or act upon it, forget it!

undefined questions Jun 1, 2017

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

reality is an illusion May 6, 2017

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

intelligence May 5, 2017

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

solving problems May 4, 2017

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

education May 3, 2017

We’re all hallucinating all the time, including right now. It’s just that when we agree about ou...

perception is a hallucination Apr 27, 2017

Noob: An idiot who thinks they know everything about something and usually complain that more ex...

noob Apr 11, 2017

An old lady picked out 3 tomatoes at a stall. The hawker weighed them and asked for 4 dollars. ...

shopping trick Apr 7, 2017

The secret of happiness is to find something more important than you are and dedicate your life ...

secret of happiness Mar 3, 2017

Wherever there is a design that is highly successful in a broad range of similar environments, i...

good tricks Mar 2, 2017

Darwin’s idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction ...

uncomfortable darwin Mar 1, 2017

Not a single one of the cells that compose you knows who you are, or cares.

cells dont care Feb 28, 2017

Prices communicate scarcity not value. Professional athletes don’t earn more because they’re mor...

prices tell scarcity Feb 24, 2017

That all money is debt, and that the fractional reserve monetary system is a pyramid scheme. Ban...

money is debt Feb 23, 2017

If you don’t like making tea, but someone still wants you to make it, get it slightly wrong for ...

unethical life hack Feb 14, 2017

If you want to lie, make it shameful. People will believe you. “I was late to the meeting becaus...

cool lie Feb 14, 2017

Preparations: Using the inspect-element tool in Chrome, go to Amazon and edit the prices for a p...

price-match hack Feb 13, 2017

If you want people to like you, ask them to do favors for you.

ask them favors Jan 24, 2017

If the only way to ensure that socially deleterious uses of the internet were insecure is to mak...

humanity deserves privacy Jan 20, 2017

When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you...

violence Jan 7, 2017

The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.

fear Jan 5, 2017

We are very defensive, and therefore aggressive, when we hold on to a particular belief, a dogma...

defensive Jan 4, 2017

Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.

freedom Jan 3, 2017

If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is n...

the problem Jan 2, 2017

It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there i...

new Jan 1, 2017

Texts are vulnerable because it’s too easy to transfer someone’s phone number to another device....

texts are vulnerable Oct 12, 2016

We are a nation of alcoholics in America, we don’t get mad at the guy who’s pummelling us, we ge...

alcoholics america Oct 7, 2016

Best possible shot to save the one planet we’ve got.

planet we got Oct 5, 2016

Micro-moments are the I-want-to-go, I-want-to-do, I-want-to-buy, or I-want-to-know moments when ...

micro-moments Sep 29, 2016

If you find yourself getting angry at someone lower on the economic ladder than you, the chances...

manipulated Sep 21, 2016

So much of what we understand about purpose at work comes from Hollywood. Stories are a powerful...

purpose comes from hollywood Sep 18, 2016

If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.

telling the truth Sep 8, 2016

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

create yourself Sep 7, 2016

If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still ...

exchange ideas Sep 5, 2016

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

He who can does Sep 1, 2016

Independence? That’s middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of ...

Independence Aug 31, 2016

A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.

fashion Aug 30, 2016

In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.

richest man Aug 29, 2016

If you teach a man anything, he will never learn.

teaching Aug 28, 2016

With 26 Latin letters and choices, anyone can type Chinese. There are so many methods to type C...

chinese and latin Aug 19, 2016

I really want to live before I die. What should I do? Don’t try to live before you die. That’s ...

meta goal Aug 12, 2016

I climb on trees to see what it could be.

what cpuld be Jul 19, 2016

Yes, the execution of the idea is what is ultimately most important.

execution Jul 15, 2016

It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.

understand little Jun 24, 2016

In a survival situation, if an individual has nothing to drink, he must not eat, since this will...

no drink no eat Jun 24, 2016

…if you are the smartest man in the room, you are probably in the wrong room.

wrong room Feb 12, 2016

When you try to keep alive an economic system that architecturally cannot survive, through polit...

capitalism will eat democracy Jan 26, 2016

I think that privacy, ultimately, and our right for privacy is more important than our fear of b...

privacy Jan 5, 2016

A monkey glances up and sees a banana. A visionary looks up and sees the moon. Which resembles a...

giant banana Dec 24, 2015

We should give free money to everyone… We tend to think that simply giving people money makes th...

free money Dec 24, 2015

The state of the open internet? Well, we don’t have an open internet. We haven’t had an open in...

state of the open internet Dec 12, 2015

The internet is exactly the same as society. We have to fix society, before we can fix the inter...

internet is society Dec 12, 2015

You told me the internet is broken, that it was always broken. What do you mean by that and do w...

internet is broken Dec 12, 2015

Finland actually made internet access a human right a while back. That was a clever thing of Fin...

internet access a human right Dec 12, 2015

depending on who you were “friends” with on the social network, you may or may not be worthy of ...

fb and your loan Dec 12, 2015

Al mio funerale sarà bello assai perché ci saranno parole, paroloni, elogi, mi scopriranno un gr...

devi morire Nov 29, 2015

Use facebook only as web-app!

use facebook only as web-app Jun 11, 2015

You don’t want to learn from teachers who just spoon feed you their google results

spoon feed Oct 3, 2014

You need to get comfortable asking for everything… feedback, money, help. Not comfortable asking...

partner who is Oct 3, 2014

…try not to get too caught up with what has yet to happen or what has happened …try to stay pre...

what is happening Sep 18, 2014

Develop a culture that values failure, where confusion doesn’t mean you’re stupid.

value failure Sep 3, 2014

If yes, please stop reading and seek professional counselling immediately. If no, please contin...

if-yes Sep 1, 2014

What is the best advice for an ambitious kid born into a poor family with no resources informati...

movie metaphors Aug 27, 2014

Let it go!

let it go Aug 27, 2014

As your childhood dreams shatter, I strongly encourage you to avoid embracing delusion as your p...

childhood dreams shatter Aug 27, 2014

Anonymity is important on the global stage, too. Activists who are speaking out against oppressi...

anonymous Aug 20, 2014

Speak BOLD or shut up!

speak bold Aug 14, 2014

Trash what you know. It’s old and outdated!

trash what you know Aug 9, 2014

Eat no aliens, Please!

alien you eat Aug 1, 2014

prima di parlare, verifica che ciò che stai per dire non sia applicabile a te stesso. Quando lo ...

proietti Jul 30, 2014

avantgarde please slow down.

avantgarde Jul 26, 2014

learning over education

learning over education Jul 23, 2014

you blocked me on Facebook, now you going to die.

you block me Jul 22, 2014

Many a young person tells me he wants to be a writer. I always encourage such people, but I also...

writer vs writing Jul 22, 2014

forza un pò!

forza Jul 21, 2014

letting the results speak instead of just talking tech turkey

talking tech turkey Jul 6, 2014

cento misure un taglio solo

sarta Jul 6, 2014

when you dare create some friction

friction Jun 6, 2014

internet less, talk more

internet less May 13, 2014

deploy or die

deploy or die Mar 6, 2014

I do not want to talk to you or answer any questions without my attorney present. Please don’t a...

bout the man in blue Aug 13, 2012

The Best Experience Is Inexperience Before joining Facebook, Amir Michael spent more than five ...

best experience is no experience Jun 21, 2012

Well, it’s ideas that hijack our brains. Now, am I saying that a sizable minority of the world’s...

infectious ideas Feb 1, 2002

One set of ideas or another have simply replaced our biological imperatives in our own lives. Th...

biological imperatives Feb 1, 2002

demo or die

demo or die Jan 1, 1985