"Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free."

Thought, Habit, Privilege

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"Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free."

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"One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny."

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"Ever since Plato most philosophers have considered it part of their business to produce 'proofs' of immortality and the existence of God. They have found fault with the proofs of their predecessors - Saint Thomas rejected Saint Anselm's proofs, and Kant rejected Descartes' - but they have supplied new ones of their own. In order to make their proofs seem valid, they have had to falsify logic, to make mathematics mystical, and to pretend that deepseated prejudices were heaven-sent intuitions."

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"War grows out of ordinary human nature."

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"Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities."

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"Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it."

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"Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy."

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"A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short."

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"The importance of Man, which is the one indispensable dogma of the theologians, receives no support from a scientific view of the future of the solar system."

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"The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge."

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"When you take action-think.When you fail-think.When you are in doubt-think.When you have lost your way-think.You are nothing but your thoughts."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Wherever your thoughts and beliefs can take you, you can go there."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Give thy thoughts no tongue."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Heresy is another word for freedom of thought."

Graham Greene, British Playwright

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"Each "way of thinking" has its own shape and color, which wax and wane like the moon."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

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"The only way to make a great thought great is to share it."

Toni Sorenson, American Author

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"Language is the dress of thought."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"How can the thoughts be stopped? Tell the thoughts, 'You take care of your own issues; I am not on your side.' That way you will sit on God's side."

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

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"Of course, in our train of thought, we would all like to think we're on the right track, or at least the same railroad company as the right track."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

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"All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato."

George Santayana, American Philosopher

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