Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
("War and Peace")
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Don't seek God in temples. He is close to you. He is within you. Only you should surrender to Him and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness.
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Let us forgive each other - only then will we live in peace
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He soon felt that the fulfillment of his desires gave him only one grain of the mountain of happiness he had expected. This fulfillment showed him the eternal error men make in imagining that their happiness depends on the realization of their desires.
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The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
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