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Philosophical Quotes
"In your haste you walk far too fast. And in doing so you often leave your soul behind."
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"To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes."
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"Death is terrible to Cicero desirable to Cato and indifferent to Socrates."
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"Something more terrible than a hell where one suffers may be imagined, and that is a hell where one is bored."
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"It's as if I had been going downhill when I thought I was going uphill. That's how it was. In society's opinion I was heading uphill, but in equal measure life was slipping away from me... And now it's all over. Nothing left but to die!" "So what's it all about? What's it for? It's not possible. It's not possible that life could have been as senseless and sickening as this. And if it has really been as sickening and senseless as this why do I have to die, and die in agony? There's something wrong. Maybe I didn't live as I should have done?" came the sudden thought. "But how can that be when I did everything properly?" he wondered, instantly dismissing as a total impossibility the one and only solution to the mystery of life and death."
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"I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones and which can only be experienced in those bones. Basically it is nothing other than this fear we have so often talked about, but fear spread to everything, fear of the greatest as of the smallest, fear, paralyzing fear of pronouncing a word, although this fear may not only be fear but also a longing for something greater than all that is fearful."
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"The more mental effort he made the clearer he saw that it was undoubtedly so: that he had really forgotten and overlooked one little circumstance in life - that Death would come and end everything, so that it was useless to begin anything, and that there was no help for it, Yes it was terrible but true."
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"Man always need discomfort for awaken."
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"Is life worth living? That depends on the liver."
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"Man is a measure of his mind."
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"Existence was not only absurd, it was plain hard work."
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"We fail to say the right words, because we choose to say the wrong words! We choose to say the wrong words, because we fail to think about the right words!"
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"Always! That is the dreadful word ... it is a meaningless word too."
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"We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible."
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"He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless circling of the intestate earth. Darkness implacable. The blind dogs of the sun in their running. The crushing black vacuum of the universe. And somewhere two hunted animals trembling like ground-foxes in their cover. Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it."
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"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
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"Here, there's no anger, no loss, not even fear. When he's battling, everything has a crystal clarity, just action and reaction."
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"If the universe does consist of a battle between the devil and God, the final analysis should conclude that religion would have been the devil's most brilliant move and science, God's."
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"Even if the heavy cloud fails to bring heavy rainfall, it cools the atmosphere."
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"I'm going to kill myself. I should go to Paris and jump off the Eiffel Tower. I'll be dead. you know, in fact, if I get the Concorde, I could be dead three hours earlier, which would be perfect. Or wait a minute. It -- with the time change, I could be alive for six hours in New York but dead three hours in Paris. I could get things done, and I could also be dead."
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"The real you is not you, the real you is what is within you. What is behind your joy or your melancholy. What gives you the reason to ponder. What moves or stops you. What makes you you is you."
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"He was a finisher who could not finish. He was the heart of a hunter who lacked the heart to kill.In her journal she had written I am humanity, and something in those three words split him in two.She was the may fly, here for a day, then gone. She was the last star, burning bright in a sea of limitless black.Erase the human.In a burst of blinding light, the star Cassiopeia exploded and the world went black.Evan Walker had been undone."
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"Each new day, our minds grow older; the better or bitter daily lesson that makes our minds grow older is the matter!"
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"A clear line of distinctness must be drawn between the environment of the body and the environment of the mind or both the body and the mind be regarded as intertwined and be deprived of strength and efficiency. When the body is in crises, the mind must not be and when the mind is in crises, the body must not be. Such is tenacity and nimbleness."
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"It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things."
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"Luck of money is never poverty."
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"Even things that are true can be proved."
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"Man can only use money to buy man-made goods."
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"Man is but his belief."
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"Detoxify your thought and be free."
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"You are rebirth, therefore you have one foot in life and the other in death."
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"All men must die. We are but death's instruments, not death himself."
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"We may have a better reflection of ourselves in the mirror depending on how thick the opaque substance behind it is; the lighter the substance, the poorer the image; the thicker the substance,the better the image."
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"He was a "how" thinker not an "if" thinker."
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"When you meet the real problems of life, think of the real lessons of life for the real lessons of life are in the real problems of life."
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"Today was once the future from which you expected so much in the past."
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"When your emotions are in motion, take a break and ponder!"
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"If you want to know the real character of man, intentionally and timely give him the test of 3d's; delay, denial and disappointment."
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"They that fail to recognize, take and and learn the lessons of discomfort well, meet the comforts of life and still live in discomfort."
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"Life is less a burden without an absolute quest for material possessions."
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