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Philosophical Quotes
"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 a world in which the common rule which binds and regulates what the general masses feel is undermined, what the general masses feel tend to become the common rule."
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"Death is terrible to Cicero desirable to Cato and indifferent to Socrates."
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"In your haste you walk far too fast. And in doing so you often leave your soul behind."
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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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"Man is a measure of his mind."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"Man always need discomfort for awaken."
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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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"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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"Is life worth living? That depends on the liver."
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"Always! That is the dreadful word ... it is a meaningless word too."
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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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"Man can only use money to buy man-made goods."
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"Man is but his belief."
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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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"The world is a clock winding down.I hear it in the wind's icy fingers scratching against the window. I smell it in the mildewed carpeting and the rotting wallpaper of the old hotel. And I feel it in Teacup's chest as she sleeps. The hammering of her heart, the rhythm of her breath, warm in the freezing air, the clock winding down."
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"All men must die. We are but death's instruments, not death himself."
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"Even if the heavy cloud fails to bring heavy rainfall, it cools the atmosphere."
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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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"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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"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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"You may meet opportunities; you may miss opportunities; you may create opportunities. Opportunities may recur; opportunities may be equivalent but not equal. For the sake of the vicissitudes of life and the mutability of time, watch your time."
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"I am yet to see an insane who would use the mid of the high way as a home. Regardless of the degree of insanity, there is always a regard for the value and essence of life."
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"Luck of money is never poverty."
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"You are rebirth, therefore you have one foot in life and the other in death."
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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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"Not everything that is seen is visible."
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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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"Even things that are true can be proved."
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"Religion is the subjective experience. Science is the objective reality. To argue either is a ridiculous waste of time and energy."
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"Perhaps one never seems so much at one's ease as when one has to play a part."
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"Detoxify your thought and be free."
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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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