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"Monsieur Beulier never engaged in thought except to speak the truth, and never spoke except to express his thought."
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"Think independently and critically, but never forget to think with understanding and love."

"A philosopher is a lover and searcher of truth, beauty, meaning, and wisdom."

"There is nothing wrong or right, only our thoughts make it so."

"Opinion about religion might be different, but religion should be one and that is the well being of humanity."

"You may not be rich with money, Socrates was not, your life still has tremendous value."

"You are the center of your universe, without you nothing is there."

"The role of a philosopher is to create a better way for the future generations."

"You are still adrift while you still think that a means is an end."

"You are the byproduct of your level of consciousness, thoughts, and actions."

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"Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness."

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"As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress."

"Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself."

"We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us."

"There is nothing like desire for obstructing any resemblance between what one says and what one has on one's mind."

"And the others too were beginning to remark in Swann that abnormal, excessive, shameful and deserved senescence of bachelors, of all those for whom it seems that the great day which knows no morrow must be longer than for other men, since for them it is a void of promise, and from its dawn the moments steadily accumulate without any subsequent partition among offspring."
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