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It is reason which breeds pride and reflection which fortifies it; reason which turns man inward into himself; reason which separates him from everything which troubles or affects him. It is philosophy which isolates a man, and prompts him to say in secret at the sight of another suffering: 'Perish if you will; I am safe.' No longer can anything but dangers to society in general disturb the tranquil sleep of the philosopher or drag him from his bed. A fellow-man may with impunity be murdered under his window, for the philosopher has only to put his hands over his ears and argue a little with himself to prevent nature, which rebels inside him, from making him identify himself with the victim of the murder. The savage man entirely lacks this admirable talent, and for want of wisdom and reason he always responds recklessly to the first promptings of human feeling.
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One short sleep past, we wake eternally, and death shall be no more; death, thou shalt die.
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Our interests are grains of opium to our consciences, but they only put it to sleep for a terrible awakening.
Knowing that great and all-pervading Self by which one sees (the objects) both in the sleep and the waking states, the intelligent man grieves no more.
Krishna, also Kreeshna, Krsna, Lord Krishna NULL
Those who eat too much or eat too little, who sleep too much or sleep too little, will not succeed in meditation. But those who are temperate in eating and sleeping, work and recreation, will come to the end of sorrow through meditation.
Ludwig Wittgenstein, fully Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein
Man has to awaken to wonder — and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.
Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.
The less I take the difficulties of my life as personal affront, and the more I use them as an opportunity to learn and grow... the easier I sleep at night.
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Ere you lie down to sleep in the night, sit still awhile, and nurse again to life your gentler self. Forget the restless, noisy spirit of the day, and encourage to speech the soft voices within you that timidly whisper of the peace of the quiet night; and occasionally look out at the quiet stars. The night will soothe you like a tender mother, folding you against her soft bosom, and hiding you from the harm of the world. Though denied and rejected by men in the light of day, the night will not reject you and in the still of her soft shadows you are free. After the day's struggle there is no freedom like unfettered thoughts, no sound like the music of silence. And though behind you lies a road of dust and heat and discouragement, and before you the challenge and uncertainty of untried paths, in this brief hour you are master of all highways, and the universe nestles in your soul.
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Michel de Montaigne, fully Lord Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Habituation puts to sleep the eye of our judgment.
Miguel de Cervantes, fully Miguel de Cervantes Saaversa
Death and sleep make us all alike, rich and poor, high and low.
Dream hunters plunge into other people's dreams and sleep and from them extract little pieces of Adam-the-precusor's being, composing them into a whole, into so-called Khazar dictionaries.
Mitch Albom, fully Mitchell David "Mitch" Albom
If we tend to the things that are important in life, if we are right with those we love, and behave in line with our faith, our lives will not be cursed with the aching throb of unfulfilled business. Our words will always be sincere, our embraces will be tight. We will never wallow in the agony of ‘I could have, I should have’. We can sleep in a storm. And when its time, our goodbyes will be complete.
Mitch Albom, fully Mitchell David "Mitch" Albom
My friends, if we tend to the things that are important in life, if we are right with those we love and behave in line with our faith, our lives will not be cursed with the aching throb of unfulfilled business. Our words will always be sincere, our embraces tight. We will never wallow in agony of ‘I could have, I should have.’ We can sleep in a storm. And when it’s time, our good-byes will be complete.
After several thousand years, we have advanced to the point where we bolt our doors and windows and turn on our burglar alarms - while the jungle natives sleep in open-door huts.
You don't get something for nothing. You can't have freedom for free. You won't get wise with the sleep still in your eyes no matter what your dreams might be.
From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.
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Paul Chatfield, pseudonym for Horace Smith
Death is a silent, peaceful genius, who rocks our second childhood to sleep in the cradle of the coffin.