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By studying, understanding and do the wills of the book, you renounce your mortal life.

By learning more, by doing more, by becoming more, and by creating a common vision, a leader is a person who can inspire others to change for the better.

By seeing the beauty of life, I attract them into my life.

By loving others unconditionally, we open the door of happiness.

By the aid of philosophy you will live not unpleasantly, for you will learn to extract pleasure from all places and things: wealth will make you happy, because it will enable you to benefit many; and poverty, as you will not then have many anxieties; and glory, for it will make you honoured; and obscurity, for you will then be safe from envy.

By the grace of reality and the nature of life, man—every man—is an end in himself, he exists for his own sake, and the achievement of his own happiness is his highest moral purpose.

By this freedom the will of a rational being, as belonging to the sensuous world, recognizes itself to be, like all other efficient causes, necessarily subject to the laws of causality, while in practical matters, in its other aspect as a being in itself, it is conscious of its existence as determinable in an intelligible order of things. It is conscious of this not by virtue of a particular intuition of itself but because of certain dynamic laws which determine its causality in the world of sense, for it has been sufficiently proved in another place that if freedom is attributed to us, it transfers us into an intelligible order of things." ―from_Critique of Practical Reason_. Translated, with an Introduction by Lewis White Beck, p. 43.

By taking systematic actions and by focusing on beauty, for sure we can change our society.

Cada fracaso enseña algo que se necesitaba aprender.

-Cada uno se miente como puede -dije-. Yo soy una experta en eso.

By the time the Truth comes, you'd have been a sure-shot rascal, a long-gone bastard, a life-long sinner, but an ever-humble winner.

By the time we began to understand enough about what the world to ask the right questions, our visit is over, and someone else is visiting, asking the same questions.

Call humanity what it is; an imperfection amongst perfection.

By what incomprehensible mechanism are our organs held in subjection to sentiment and thought? How is it that a single melancholy idea shall disturb the whole course of the blood; and that the blood should in turn communicate irregularities to the human understanding? What is that unknown fluid which certainly exists and which, quicker and more active than light, flies in less than the twinkling of an eye into all the channels of life,—produces sensations, memory, joy or grief, reason or frenzy,—recalls with horror what we would choose to forget; and renders a thinking animal, either a subject of admiration, or an object of pity and compassion?

By which deed do you wish to be remembered?

Call up the ever-pure, the effulgent and the ever-radiant character of true humanism in yourself and in others, and no racism shall have the power to thrive in such society even for a few seconds.

Calling sex by its name thereafter [the 17th c.] became more difficult and more costly. As if in order to gain mastery of it in reality, it had first been necessary to subjugate it at the level of language, control its free circulation in speech, expunge it from the things that were said, and extinguish the words that rendered it too visibly present.

Can all this just be an accident? Or could there be some alien intelligence behind it?

Can the sky ever forget his moon?

Can you imagine, somebody telling you, your love for your dearly beloved is a sin! Can you imagine, somebody telling you, women are inferior to men, and are meant only serve the men! Can you imagine, somebody telling you, a man can have multiple wives, and yet be deemed civilized! Here that somebody is a fundamentalist ape - a theoretical pest from the stone-age, that somehow managed to survive even amidst all the rise of reasoning and intellect.

Capability can handle challenges, it doesn't accept charity.

Can social progress be made without government? It's like saying 'can happiness be achieved without the initiation of violence? Can romance be achieved without rape? Can profitability be achieved without theft? Can economic growth be achieved without the mass indebted enslavement and counterfeiting of the federal reserve?'.

Can we choose to disagree on something without fighting or hating each other , because of our difference.

CANYON river, most mighty, waiting for the sun to melt a single snowflake

Can you see the task we have been set? The ultimate exploration is before us, waiting for its initiation.

Can you stop smiling when you see a smiling face? Infect everyone with your smile and love.

Can you imagine what will happen if just for one day the sun forgot to rise?

Can your guilt satisfy your conscience? Can your hatred vanquish your compassion?

Capture the moment. It is your only sacred-memory.

Care for hatchlings with deliberate intentions. What they grow into will shape the dreams of the future. - The Malwatch

Celebrate every success but don't forget to enjoy those scars of failures.

Casual words can hurt the hardest or help the most. - The Malwatch

Causality is a pointless superstition. These days it would take more than one book to persuade anyone of that.

Cât sunt de reci cuvintele! Nu există niciodată nimic care să poată fi pe măsură. Sufăr, sufăr, sunt un strigăt, sunt ceva care se contorsionează, îmi simt capul plin și greu și gândesc neînchipuit de repede. Și nimic nu iese, nimic nu iese. Să scriu? Inutil să scriu. [...] Oamenii au luat cuvintele și au făcut cu ele literatură. Iar acum, eu nu mai pot să-ți spun cât sufăr.

Causes of individuals presuppose causes of the species, which are not univocal yet not wholly equivocal either, since they are expressing themselves in their effects. We could call them analogical. In language too all universal terms presuppose the non-univocal analogical use of the term *being*.

Causes: As important a fact as any individual cause on earth is the vital incapacity of the human individual to distinguish between genuine cause and one which is foisted upon him by pressure, environment, propaganda, conditioning. If people had the sense they pretend to have, they would seek this fundamental distinction perceptible. Hardly anyone makes this effort. This is partly because it is an invisible but powerful part of their culture to teach that conditioned emotionality and ‘causes’ whose necessity, urgency or rightness is only conditioned into them, are necessarily, right.

Certainly my work is negative, destructive; but … only in relation to the unhuman, not to the human[.]

Certainly we can say that the pace of modern life, increased and supported by our technology in general and our personal electronics in particular, has resulted in a short attention span and an addiction to the influx of information. A mind so conditioned has little opportunity to think critically, and even less chance to experience life deeply by being in the present moment. A complex life with complicated activities, relationships and commitments implies a reflexive busy-ness that supplants true thinking and feeling with knee-jerk reactions. It is a life high in stress and light on substance, at least in the spiritually meaningful dimensions of being.

Certainly, what Kant calls the transcendental reference, experience and object of experience are in a sense present in both opposed views of the nature of the subjective *a-priori*. In both cases the object must 'order itself' according to the rules of the knowing mind or its functions, irrespective of whether the specific function of cognition is based on a systematic construction, synthetization, formation of the object from 'given' sensational material or on a methodical selection-process (suppression, abstraction, disregard) imposed on a self-constituting object. For if the order of selection in which the fulness of the world, as it is in ipseity, reaches man (or a particular kind of man, e.g., a type of racial or cultural unity) is so governed that an object of essence *B* is only given when an object of essence *A* has already been given (if, that is to say, *A* has datum-priority over *B* in order of time―not necessarily in direct succession), then if an object *X* is simultaneously of essence *A* and *B*, everything which is true of *A* must necessarily be true of *X*―not vice versa. For example, if spatiality and extensity have strict perceptual priority over all essential properties of matter and corporeality, geometry must be strictly valid for all possible bodies. But the same principle, the applicability of geometry to all bodies without exception, would still hold good if Kant's doctrine were true―though it denies the very reality of extension and space, and explains the spatial form as merely a subjective aspect of the datum. Thus in both cases the transcendental validity of the so-called *a-priori*, even for the objects of experience, would persist, so that in itself it offers us *no* criterion of choice between one or other *hypothesis*―that which supposes a synthetic addition of the form on the part of the spontaneous mind, or the other, which postulates an ordered selection in conformity with foreknown essences." ―from_On the Eternal in Man_. The Nature of Philosophy, with a new introduction by Graham McAleer

C'est très beau l'intuition, c'est très commode pour expliquer un phénomène on ne sait pas ce que c'est.

Certes, Essi est un singe pouilleux dont les vieilles mains n’intéresseraient plus personne. Mais il sait au dedans ce que nous ne soupçonnons pas du dehors : la folie des hommes au cœur lourd, ballottés de part le monde au gré de leurs caprices et du reflet de leur désirs dans les objets sensibles.

Cette [menace terroriste] ultime, qui traduit un attisement généralisé de la peur érigée en virtù, est désormais sous contrôle via la production de politiques qui insécurisent en permanence la société civile, et partant les individus, plutôt qu'elles ne les protègent ou les défendent. Ces politiques sont très économiques à plus d'un titre, notamment parce-qu'elles transfèrent à ces mêmes individus la responsabilité de se défendre et donc d'incorporer les usages de la violence, de devenir des corps défensifs permettant utilement de les transformer en unités martiales et létales atomisées, assignées à la surveillance et au contrôle d'un ennemi sans visage, et acceptant d'être gouvernés par la peur au nom de leur sécurité.

CHALLENGE - Instead of losing motivation, empower yourself to prove detractors wrong

Change is an opportunity to grow. Change is not an adversity to fear.

Change directions to go wherever your heart desires to go; stay with a direction to satisfy your ego.

Change blows through the branches of our existence. It fortifies the roots on which we stand, infuses crimson experience with autumn hues, dismantles Winter’s brittle leaves, and ushers Spring into our fertile environments. Seeds of evolution burst from their pod cocoons and teardrop buds blossom into Summer flowers. Change releases its redolent scent, attracting the buzz of honey bees and the adoration of discerning butterflies.

Change is fearful, but at the end it is beautiful.

Change is inevitable, so accept it. Forgiveness is a gift, so give it. Love is abundant, so spread it. Failure is not fatal, do don't fear it. Life is for living, so live it.

Change your perspective. Enjoy every failure as a success and every win as a loss.

Change is inevitable and the ultimate way of life. Change creates new opportunities for new beauties in life.