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  • The most important thing is practice in daily life; then you can know gradually the true value of religion. Doctrine is not meant for mere knowledge, but for the improvement of our minds. In order to do that, it must be part of our life. If you put religious doctrine in a building and when you leave the building depart from the practices, you cannot gain its value.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Religious Quotes , Order Quotes
  • We must bear in mind, then, that there is nothing more difficult and dangerous, or more doubtful of success, than an attempt to introduce a new order of things in any state. For the innovator has for enemies all those who derived advantages from the old order of things, whilst those who expect to be benefited by the new institutions will be but lukewarm defenders.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes , Order Quotes , Mind Quotes
  • And it will always happen that he who is not your friend will request your neutrality and he who is your friend will ask you to declare yourself by taking up arms. And irresolute princes, in order to avoid present dangers, follow the neutral road most of the time, and most of the time they are ruined.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes , Order Quotes , Neutrality Quotes
  • The further and further we look out with our telescopes and the further and further we look in with our microscopes, the larger and larger and smaller and smaller the universe becomes in order to escape the investigation because we are the universe looking at itself.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Order Quotes , Looks Quotes
  • Therefore, in order not to have to rob his subjects, to be able to defend himself, not to become poor and contemptible, and not to be forced to become rapacious, a prince must consider it of little importance if he incurs the name of miser, for this is one of the vices that permits him to rule.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes , Order Quotes , Vices Quotes
  • The aim of the poet is to inform or delight, or to combine together, in what he says, both pleasure and applicability to life. In instructing, be brief in what you say in order that your readers may grasp it quickly and retain it faithfully. Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full. Fiction invented in order to please should remain close to reality.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Horace Quotes , Reality Quotes , Order Quotes
  • The further and further we look out with our telescopes and the further and further we look in with our microscopes, the larger and larger and smaller and smaller the universe becomes in order to escape the investigation because we are the universe looking at itself.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Order Quotes , Looks Quotes