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Men are never alone because that which, acknowledged or unacknowledged, dreams through them is always by their side.

— Laurens van der Post

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We suffer from a hubris of the mind. We have abolished superstition of the heart only to install a superstition of the intellect in its place.

Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.

The Lost World of the Kalahari (1958)

By chance (to use the only phrase we have for describing one of the most significant manifestations of life).

The Lost World of the Kalahari (1958)

Life is its own journey, presupposes its own change and movement, and one tries to arrest them at one's eternal peril.

Venture to the Interior (1951)

Of all man's inborn dispositions there is none more heroic than the love in him. Everything else accepts defeat and dies, but love will fight no-love every inch of the way.

Flamingo Feather (1955)

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Political leaders are never leaders. For leaders we have to look to the Awakeners! Lao Tse, Buddha, Socrates, Jesus, Milarepa, Gurdjiev, Krishnamurti.

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Utu, shepherd of the land, father of the black-headed, when you go to sleep, the people go to sleep with you; youth Utu, when you rise, the people rise with you.

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Some of my youthful readers are developing wonderful imaginations. This pleases me.

L. Frank Baum Introduction to The Lost Princess of Oz (1917)

Religion in so far as it is a source of consolation is a hindrance to true faith; and in this sense atheism is a purification.

Simone Weil

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