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Everything in the universe wants to be loved and accepted. Our personal work is to find the love and acceptance within ourselves.

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When we translate, we always to some extent betray the text we are translating. That is why translation is so hard and thankless. All you can do is to fail in the least egregious way possible.

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We take Aristotle seriously not when we write about his ideas, but when we take his ideas as part of our discussions.

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When I went to college I knew what I wanted to study, and what career I wanted to pursue. I wanted to study psychology in order to become a clinical psychologist.

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Buddhist epistemologists do argue that rational analysis leads to the conclusion that rational analysis cannot give us infallible access to truth, including that one. That's not self-defeating, though; it only induces an important kind of epistemic humility and a clearer view of what we do when we reason. We engage in one more fallible human activity among many.

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Western philosophers gained access to Asian and African traditions initially by noting similarities and differences. But that, as A. C. Mukerji, of Allahabad, was to note in 1932, is not to do philosophy, but is at best a preparation.

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To take philosophy seriously is to engage with it philosophically.

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