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Philosophy Quotes
"Communism is a religion that is inspired, directed and motivated by the Devil himself who has declared war against Almighty God."
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"It is the lot of man to share in the deeper aspirations of the universe around him and to share his own destiny as well as that of the universe, now by adjusting himself to its forces, now by putting the whole of his energy to his own ends and purposes."
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"What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'."
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"Let philosophy resolutely aim to be as scientific as possible, but let her not forget her strong kinship with literature."
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"Truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short a sum of human relations which have been subjected to poetic and rhetorical intensification, translation and decoration; truths are illusions of which we have forgotten that they are illusions, metaphors which have become worn by frequent use and have lost all sensuous vigour. Yet we still do not know where the drive to truth comes from, for so far we have only heard about the obligation to be truthful which society imposes in order to exist"from, "On Truth and Lying in a Non-Moral Sense"."
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"It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true."
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"Our salvation is in striving to achieve what we know we'll never achieve."
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"Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy."
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"Living is no laughing matter: you must live with great seriousness like a squirrel for example - I mean without looking for something beyond and above living, I mean living must be your whole occupation."
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"We must face honestly the toll that anger and bitterness take on our lives. They are our enemies! The Bible says, “An angry person stirs up dissension, and a hot-tempered one commits many sins."
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"Death wasn't part of God's original plan for humanity, and the Bible calls death an enemy - the last enemy to be destroyed."
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"Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers."
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"Many parents preach to their children but do not set good examples. Parents want the children to do as they say, not as they do."
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"Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" - and find that there is no death."
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"Pride always puts [self] above others-and cuts [itself] off from them as a result. No one likes an arrogant, prideful person."
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"No clergyman however brilliant, no evangelist no matter how eloquent or compelling, can bring about the revival we need. Only the Holy Spirit can do this."
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"The devil is a master at making us question God and His Word. Twisting Scripture . . . taking a verse out of context . . .deceiving us into thinking God is mean-spirited-these are some of Satan's favorite tricks."
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"The human spirit must prevail over technology."
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"God's will is for us to commit our lives to Christ and follow Him. God's will also is that we avoid sin."
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"I lose faith in mathematics, logical and rigid. What with those that even zero doesn't accept?"
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"How many hours are there in a mile? Is yellow square or round? Probably half the questions we ask-half our great theological and metaphysical problems-are like that."
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"The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain."
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"Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet."
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"We do not have a paradise on earth, it is riddled with so much sin and disease."
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"Grief turns us inward, but compassion turns us outward, and that's what we need when grief threatens to crush us. The Bible says, “Carry each other's burdens” [Galatians 6:2 NIV]."
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"To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell's heart, I stab at thee; For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee."
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"It is an hypothesis that the sun will rise tomorrow: and this means that we do not know whether it will rise."
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"I am not here, I am somewhere else, my body is here but mind is in the sky"
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"Your perception about the world creates your thoughts, your thoughts create your desires and intention, and your intentions manifest as your reality."
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"Why shouldn't we have laws forbidding pornography and obscenity? Many heroic leaders have tried, but they have stumbled over even the definition of the word “obscenity.” If we cannot agree on the length of a foot, it is because we have lost our yardstick."
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"The church is in turmoil today. The church is not to reflect the world but to be a portrait of Jesus Christ."
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"I loathe it when they [English teachers] are bullied by no-nothing parents or cowardly school boards."
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"Like a last signpost to the other path, Napoleon appeared, the most isolated and late-born man there has even been, and in him the problem of the noble ideal as such made flesh--one might well ponder what kind of problem it is; Napoleon this synthesis of the inhuman and the superhuman."
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"We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs."
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"All that is not eternal is eternally out of date."
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"When Jesus hung on the cross, a great unseen cosmic battle raged in the heavens-and in the end, Christ triumphed over all the forces of evil and death and hell."
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"Satan has slaughtered, plundered, and bludgeoned his way through the centuries, manifesting himself in every false ideology, sect, and cult."
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"If emptiness is endless, then everything rests in emptiness."
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"My first world is humanity. My second world is humanism. And, I live in the third world being merely a human."
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"Philosophy is not a theory but an activity."
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"Without the Bible, this world would indeed be a dark and frightening place, without signpost or beacon."
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"In the morning, prayer is the key that opens to usthe treasures of God's mercies and blessings; in the evening, it is the key that shuts us up under His protection and safeguard."
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"It's amazing how we can hurt others, especially those close to us . . .subtle and not-so-subtle ways in which wives belittle husbands and vice versa."
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"I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it."
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"I think that the Bible teaches that homosexuality is a sin, but the Bible also teaches that pride is a sin, jealousy is a sin, and hate is a sin, evil thoughts are a sin. So I don't think that homosexuality should be chosen as the overwhelming sin that we are doing today."
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"Your destiny - by hook or crook, by this way or that, at some corner or nook - will catch up with you."
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"My philosophy about the game, for instance, is that you have players out there who really do different things."
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"Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent."
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