The real purpose

The real purpose
The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking
  

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Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.
Civilization, in a sly way, is a suspicion that the other fellow may be right.
A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.
Sacrificers are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those they sacrifice.
Don'tput all your eggs in one basket.
No strength within, no respect without.
We knowwhat happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.
A man of great common sense and good taste-meaning there a man without originality or moral courage.
He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.
Real swaraj will come not by the acquisition of authority by a few but by the acquisition of capacity by all to resist authority when it is abused
The ability to speak eloquently is not to be confused with having something tosay.
Misfortuneis not that which can be avoided, but that which cannot.