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Philosophical Quotes
"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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"Men are often mislead by their fellow-men."
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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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"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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"Man is a measure of his mind."
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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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"Is life worth living? That depends on the liver."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
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"Even things that are true can be proved."
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"When your emotions are in motion, take a break and ponder!"
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"Man is but his belief."
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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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"In order for one to be converted to the 'dark' side he/she must have a complete understanding of the 'light' side With it's understanding we all would want to defy, overpower, or destroy what it is capable of."
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"No man his the master of his fate."
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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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"One of the most powerful lessons silence teaches us is to ponder."
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"Man sometimes forget, he will not live forever."
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"Luck of money is never poverty."
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"No circumstance is uncommon to a man."
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"The wiser I become, the less I think beauty has anything to do with appearance."
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"All things are subject to change and we change with them. (Omnia mutantur nos et mutamur in illis)."
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"The real trouble with reality is that there is no background music."
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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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"Hypocrisy, rejecting what you firmly have in your fist."
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"No one is absolutely free from religion and philosophy, for the life we live is always under the influence of religion and philosophy!"
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"Existence was not only absurd, it was plain hard work."
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"In a moment of sheer terror, I realized I couldn't feel my brain. It was there just a minute ago. Maybe I really was dead. "Do I look dead to you?"
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"Life is less a burden without an absolute quest for material possessions."
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"He who don't know what envy can do shall always do what envy can do."
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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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"Men behaves according to their beliefs."
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"Technology has given the dumb a tongue."
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"Naked I came into the world and naked I will depart out of it."
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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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"To be content with little is difficult to be content with much impossible."
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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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"Philosophy is like being in a dark room and looking for a black cat.Metaphysics is like being in a dark room and looking for a black cat that isn't there.Theology is like being in a dark room and looking for a black cat that isn't there, and shouting "I found it!"Science is like being in a dark room looking for a black cat while using a flashlight."
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"No one will live forever."
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