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teeth because their mouths are always open! (much laughter) The greatest problem is how to keep a woman's mouth shut! (more laughter) He could have counted any time! If not while they were awake -- if he was afraid -- then he could have counted while the women were asleep -- but he never bothered. Jest the idea that a woman cannot have anything equal to man, that man is a superior being, prevented him.
This is foolishness, utter stupidity. But there is a foundation in that foolishness: the foundation is that man is superior in every way, so how can he have the same number of teeth? The woman must have fewer teeth than a man -- it is a logical conclusion on his part. He could have done a small experiment but he never did.
You will find so many foolish things in philosophers, unbelievably foolish -- but to me the reason is clear: they are not wise. That is the difference between a Buddha and a Aristotle, the difference between a Bodhidharma and an Emmanuel Kant. The East has respected the mystic, not the philosopher. We have also produced many philosophers but nobody had taken any note of them. They have been ignored. Although they have written great treatises, interpretations, theologies, nobody has taken any note of them. In the West just the opposite has happened: the philosopher has been taken into much consideration and the mystic has been neglected, ignored.
For example, Dionysius or Pythagoras or Plotinus or Eckhart -- these people are not counted at all. You will not find their names mentioned even in the history of philosophy taught in the western universities. They are not in the main current.
Mind seems to be more important in the West. And of course mind has given many things: great scholarship, knowledge, science. But if basically man remains foolish, then all knowledge and all science is going to turn against him. It is like giving a naked sword to a small child. And that's what is happening: two world wars, so much destruction, and the third is imminent, any moment. We are always on the verge of it: just any fool...
Mm, now this cowboy (laughter), Ronald Reagan... He has been a third-rate actor. In those films in which
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