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Life is both sad and solemn. We are led into a wonderful world, we meet one another here, greet each other---and wander together for a brief moment. Then we lose each other and disappear as suddenly and unreasonably as we arrived.

Life Is Together World

How terribly sad it was that people are made in such a way that they get used to something as extraordinary as living.

People Used Way

A state that does not educate and train women is like a man who only trains his right arm.

Doe Equality Women

An answer is always on the stretch of road that is behind you. Only a question can point the way forward.

Answers Behind You Way Forward

You can never know if a person forgives you when you wrong them. Therefore it is existentially important to you. It is a question you are intensely concerned with. Neither can you know whether a person loves you. It’s something you just have to believe or hope. But these things are more important to you than the fact that the sum of the angles in a triangle is 180 degrees. You don't think about the law of cause and effect or about modes of perception when you are in the middle of your first kiss.

Believe Kissing Love You

A hydrogen atom in a cell at the end of my nose was once part of an elephant's trunk. A carbon atom in my cardiac muscle was once in the tail of a dinosaur.

Cells Elephants Hydrogen Atom

Superstitious." What a strange word. If you believed in Christianity or Islam, it was called "faith". But if you believed in astrology or Friday the thirteenth it was superstition! Who had the right to call other people's belief superstition?

Astrology Friday People

The most subversive people are those who ask questions.

Asks People Subversive

The question of whether a thing is right or wrong, good or bad, must always be considered in relation to a persons needs.

Needs Persons Relation

Where both reason and experience fall short, there occurs a vacuum that can be filled by faith.

Fall Reason Vacuums

When we look up at the sky, we are trying to find the way to ourselves.

Looks Sky Trying

I sat thinking how terribly sad it was that people are made in such a way that they get used to something as incredible as living. One day we suddenly take the fact that we exist for granted - and then, yes, then we don’t think about it anymore until we are about to leave the world again.

One Day People Thinking

Life consists of a long chain of coincidences.

Chains Coincidence Long

Acting responsibly is not a matter of strengthening our reason but of deepening our feelings for the welfare of others.

Acting Feelings Matter

Life is short for those who are truly able to understand that one day the entire world will come to a complete end. Not everyone is capable of that. Not everyone has the ability to comprehend what going away for all eternity really implies. There are too many distractions, hour by hour, minute by minute, to hinder such an understanding.

Life Is Short One Day Understanding

Wasn’t it extraordinary to be in the world right now, wandering around in a wonderful adventure!

Adventure Wandering Around World

There are five billion people living on this planet. But you fall in love with one particular person, and you won't swap her for any other.

Falling In Love People Planets

Life is like a huge lottery in which only the winning tickets are visible.

Life Is Like Tickets Winning

I am really more interested in questions than in giving answers.

Answers Giving

There is always Joker to see through the delusion. Generation succeeds generation, but there is a fool walking the earth who is never ravaged by time.

Earth Fool Generations